CNN.com – ‘Lion’ daughters win landmark case – Mar 22, 2006:
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — Three impoverished South African women, whose father wrote “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” have won a six-year battle for royalties in a landmark case that could affect musicians worldwide.
No one is saying how many millions will go to the daughters of the late composer Solomon Linda, who died in poverty from a curable kidney disease in 1962 at age 53.
But the family’s settlement with New York-based Abilene Music, which gives Linda’s heirs 25 percent of past and future royalties, has broad implications.
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