Dr Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine have been ordered to pay $25.2m (£19.2m) to a former partner in their headphone company, Beats.Steven Lamar claimed credit for the idea of creating a brand of celebrity-endorsed headphones.
He took the idea to Dre and Iovine in 2006; and the first Beats headphones were released two years later, based on a design by Robert Brunner.
The parties later fell out, and Lamar sued over unpaid royalties in 2016.A jury in Los Angeles decided that three pairs of headphones – the Studio 2 Remastered, the Studio 2 Wireless and the Studio 3 – had design similarities; and ordered that Dre and Iovine should pay Lamar $25,247,350.
With the Studio 3 still on sale, the verdict means Lamar will continue to receive royalties in addition to the court-mandated payout.
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