LOS ANGELES — According to www.xbiz.com, Reality Kings has settled with the 26 recording company plaintiffs that sued them over allegedly poaching music from some of the top recording artists and using it in 193 adult videos.
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Terms of the deal have not been revealed by either parties and in all likelihood would be a confidentiality agreement.
XBIZ says it learned of the apparent settlement in notice of dismissal filed at U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. "[The recording companies] dismiss this action without prejudice against defendants RK Netmedia Inc. and RealityKings.com," the filing said.
The recording companies in the suit claimed that Reality Kings "not only incorporated plaintiff’s works into their videos, but then used them to draw an audience to their website and to advertise and promote their videos… encouraging their performers to lip-synch the lyrics to plaintiff’s recordings while engaged in sexual acts on-camera.”
Reality Kings' parent company, RK Netmedia, has, in turn, sued its insurers over the claim by the 26 record companies, saying that they have not provided any assistance in their legal battle.
Those suits continue in two federal courts. Their insurer at the time, Darwin Select Insurance Co. of Farmington, Conn., claimed Reality Kings operators concealed and misrepresented material facts when they signed a media liability insurance policy with them.
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