Beats signed an agreement with Steven Lamar and his company, Jibe Audio, but Beats violated the agreement.
This is the case. In 2006, Lamar found Dr. Dre and talked about the idea of letting celebrities endorse headphones. Lamar’s lawyers believe that more than a dozen Beats headphones have Lamar’s credit, and the company owes him a huge share. Fee, more than 130 million US dollars.
The defendant believed that Lamar did participate in the original plan, but only one product should pay him, which is the first generation of Studio headphones, and this headset has already been paid.
Lamar lawyer Stephen E. Morrissey told the media outside the court: “The jury agrees with us that Mr. Lamar did participate in the establishment of Beats. Although he did not fully receive us What we want, but we are satisfied with the results. 'Lamar said, there will be more headset sales in the future, so the return will increase.
Beats is a headset company founded in 2006 and later introduced streaming music services. In May 2014, Apple acquired Beats for US$3 billion. Because the lawsuit was filed four months before Apple’s acquisition, Apple was not the defendant. For Apple For 25,200,000 US dollars is just a small amount of money.