Original Article on The New York Times

Daily updates on the business of digital music.The Gambler Sues: Following performers like Eminem, Chuck D. and Sister Sledge, Kenny Rogers has become the latest artist to sue over digital royalties. In his suit, filed this week in United States District Court in Nashville, Tenn., Mr. Rogers says that Capitol Records owes him more than $400,000, accusing the label of incorrectly counting downloads as sales instead of as licenses, which pay a higher rate. The suit goes into a fair amount of detail about Mr. Rogerss account, saying that Capitol, an EMI division, also owes him at least $2,518.77 for record club sales and $10,880.18 in video costs, as well as unknown amounts from settlements in industry lawsuits against file-sharing services li...(read more)