Apple was made in 2014 for 3.000 million dollars, the largest purchase that the company, Beats Electronics, has made, within which was the streaming music service Beats Music and that allowed the company, a year later , launch Apple Music, Apple's streaming music service.
Despite the fact that the company was bought 4 years ago, the Cupertino-based company has continued to use the original Beats designs, designs that were not created by either Jimmy Iovine or Dr. Dre, but rather by Steve Lamar. , who just got the founders of Beats Electronics to pay 25 million dollars.
As we can read in Billboard, the co-founders of Beats Electronics, Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre have been sentenced by the Superior Court of Los Angeles to pay 25 million dollars, in royalties to Steve Lamar, for having been the designer of the models that Apple continues to sell in the market today. Lamar filed the lawsuit two years ago, but it hasn't been until now. when the sentence has been final and can no longer be appealed.
According to the jury, Lamar had fulfilled his contract and the defendants had to pay him the corresponding royalties for the sale of three models: Studio 2 Remastered, Studio 2 Wireless, and Studio 3 a total of $ 25.247.350. Both Iovine and Dre affirmed that Lamar should only obtain royalties for the first model, the Beats Studio, since the agreement that the founders of Beats Electronics reached with Steve Lamar only contemplated a single product within the same line of headphones.
The lawsuit was filed in 2016, a lawsuit where Lamar he was asking for something more than 100 million dollars in royalties for collaborating on the design of the Beats Studio together with industrial designer Robert Brunner.