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30-542: Jurassic 5 debuted nationally in 1995 from TVT Records with their first single "Unified Rebelution". Jurassic 5 released Jurassic 5 EP , their first record, in 1997. It "cemented their position in the 1990s alternative hip hop movement, alongside artists such as Company Flow , Black Star and Kool Keith ." The group later signed to Interscope Records , and the EP was repackaged with additional tracks and released in December 1998 as

60-419: A fraud or tort. The court agreed, reducing TVT's award to $ 126,000. In 2002, Prudential Financial acquired the rights to Pretty Hate Machine , The Connells , the "Mortal Kombat" soundtracks, the first seven volumes of Television's Greatest Hits , and a Wax Trax boxed set; certain publishing rights in compositions from KMFDM , Gil Scott-Heron and Nine Inch Nails, among others; and trademarks, including

90-564: A gold release in Germany and Sweden with The Connells , and scored platinum and gold records in Canada with Default . TeeVee Toons was founded in August 1984 by Steve Gottlieb , a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law. Gottlieb launched the label from his New York City apartment with the release of Television's Greatest Hits , an album featuring theme songs from classic TV shows that became

120-486: A new management team. In 2009, The Orchard was named the 66th-fastest growing company in North America for the five-year period from 2004 to 2009. In 2009, Scholl accepted a position as president, Local Integrated Media at NBCUniversal and Brad Navin was appointed CEO. In 2012, Sony acquired a majority stake of 51% in the company in a cash and equity deal with an estimated total valuation of $ 100 million. In 2015,

150-477: A respectable seller. The San Francisco Chronicle called the album "the most fun you can have with your pants on", and the New York Times highlighted it as one of 1985's most notable business ideas. In 1986, TeeVee Toons was shortened to TVT Records. In 1988–89, TVT signed industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails , and they released their debut studio album Pretty Hate Machine on October 20, 1989. But there

180-537: Is attempting to acquire AdSense revenue falsely from claims that go undisputed. The Orchard along with Rumblefish Inc. was subject to a 2019 copyfraud dispute regarding a public domain performance by the United States Navy Band uploaded onto YouTube. A 2019 case study noted examples of The Orchard selling music works and digital ad revenue online without permission of the artists in the 2010 case Bryant v. Media Right Productions, Inc. The Orchard owns

210-523: Is matched to a particular copyright owner via YouTube's content identification system, then one or more links will be placed under the video in order to help promote the copyright owner's music, with the video remaining available. The article states that erroneous claims are removed by The Orchard Team after review upon email communication with their dispute department. However, they are not timely in their response, which leads some YouTube users (or copyright/original content owners/creators) to believe The Orchard

240-603: Is not the end of TVT." In June 2008, however, the digital music label The Orchard was declared the winning bidder by a New York bankruptcy court, paying $ 6.05 million. The Orchard gained control of TVT's artist contracts, catalogue recordings, and its distribution infrastructure, thus ending the TVT Records label imprint. The music publishing assets were transferred to TVT Music Enterprises, and later purchased by Reservoir Media . On April 6, 2010, The Bicycle Music Company acquired 700 master recordings across 80 albums, including

270-567: The Television's Greatest Hits logo, after TVT had defaulted on a loan to Prudential. In 2005, Prudential placed the catalogue up for sale. In 2007, TVT lost a $ 9 million lawsuit to Slip-N-Slide Records when a Florida judge ruled that Slip-N-Slide had legal rights to distribute an unreleased album it owned by rapper Pitbull that he recorded for Slip-N-Slide in 2001. TVT, who signed Pitbull several years later, had sought to notice third parties (such as record stores or digital download entities) that

300-555: The 2003 skateboarding game Tony Hawk's Underground . The song "In The House" from Feedback was featured in NBA Live 06 . and "Work it Out" was in NBA Live 07 , while "Red Hot" was featured in SSX on Tour . "Sum of Us" and "High Fidelity" from Power in Numbers was included in the 2019 game Trials Rising . The group were featured in the 2001 hip hop documentary Scratch and ranked among

330-552: The Summer of 2014. In 2016, they released their first new song in a decade, "Customer Service". Jurassic 5's music has been used in several video games. In 2000, "Jayou" was featured in Grind Session . Also in 2000, Jet Set Radio was released in North America including the track "Improvise" from the album Quality Control - though it only appears on the US pressing. All other pressings of

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360-582: The Wellwater Conspiracy , The Brian Jonestown Massacre , The Holloways , The Cinematics , Buck-O-Nine , DJ Hurricane , Speech and Pitbull . The label had a triple platinum release with Nine Inch Nails's Pretty Hate Machine , two double platinum releases by Lil Jon, and platinum releases by Snoop Dogg and Tha Eastsidaz , Dashboard Confessional , Default and Ying Yang Twins , as well as gold releases by Sevendust , Gravity Kills , and The Black Crowes and Jimmy Page . Additionally, TVT achieved

390-543: The album Quality Control , which peaked at #43 on the Billboard 200 . In 2002, they released Power In Numbers , which peaked at #15 on the Billboard 200 chart. Jurassic 5 eventually toured without Cut Chemist , who left the group to pursue a solo career. The remaining five members released Feedback , their final album, on July 25, 2006. The album peaked at #15 on the Billboard 200. The group split in 2007. Reasons for

420-518: The album have the track Concrete And Clay instead - and an instrumental version of the same song. The following year, the track "Great Expectations" from the same album was also included in Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX . In 2002, "What's Golden" was featured on ATV Offroad Fury 2 . The song was additionally included in the video game Forza Horizon 3 on the fictional radio 'Block Party'. "A Day At The Races" featuring Big Daddy Kane and Percee P appeared in

450-617: The break-up were attributed to disagreements among members of the group. In 2013, the group re-formed, including the return of Cut Chemist, for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and an international tour, primarily in the UK but also including dates in Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Japan and the United States. They played at Glastonbury in 2014 and had a Word of Mouth Reunion Tour during

480-476: The catalogues of Nine Inch Nails , The Connells and Television's Greatest Hits , from Prudential. The Orchard (company) The Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc. , doing business as The Orchard (also known as The Orchard Music ), is an American music and entertainment company, specializing in media distribution. It is a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment , based in New York City . In 2019,

510-701: The catalogues of TVT Records , Premium Latin Music (home to Aventura ), Blind Pig Records , Frenchkiss Records , Shrapnel Records ., and Music of the World . In 2019, the Orchard Film was sold and renamed 1091 Media . BalconyTV is an online music channel launched in June 2006, featuring acoustic performances on balconies around the world. In 2007, it won Best Music Website at the Irish Digital Media Awards, and

540-536: The company sold off its film and television division, which was renamed 1091 Media . The company was founded in 1997 by Scott Cohen and Richard Gottehrer in New York City . In early 2003, The Orchard was bought by Dimensional Associates. Danny Stein, the CEO of Dimensional Associates, was appointed Executive Chairman, and Greg Scholl left management consulting firm McKinsey & Company to become The Orchard's CEO, changing its strategy and operating model and building

570-559: The course of its 24-year history. After losing a legal battle with Slip-N-Slide Records , TVT Records filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and the company's assets were acquired by The Orchard and Reservoir Media . Content that had previously been transferred to Prudential Financial was acquired by Bicycle Music Company in 2010. The label's roster included Nine Inch Nails , Ja Rule , Lil Jon , Underworld , KMFDM , Gravity Kills , The KLF , The Baldwin Brothers , Sevendust , Nothingface ,

600-453: The distribution and sale of this album would violate TVT's exclusive right to create new music by the artist. The judge, however, ruled against TVT as Pitbull had made the recordings prior to signing with TVT, and awarded Slip-N-Slide the $ 9 million judgement as TVT had attempted to block the sale of the album. TVT filed for appeal but was unable to post the required bond, thus TVT filed for bankruptcy. On February 19, 2008, Gottlieb stated "This

630-521: The full-length, eponymous debut album titled Jurassic 5 . In a 2002 interview with The Sydney Morning Herald , the group explained the origin of their name. Chali 2na said "I played the song to my friend's mother and she made a joke: 'You guys think you sound like the Fantastic Five, but you sound more like the Jurassic Five.' And we started laughing but, well, the name stuck." This was followed by

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660-609: The label reached an amicable arrangement with Napster for use of TVT's artist copyrights, and TVT's CEO joined the Napster advisory board. Gottlieb appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2001 on a panel that included Richard Parsons , then head of Time Warner ; Ken Berry, head of EMI ; and artists Alanis Morissette and Don Henley . CEO Gottlieb served on the Board of Directors of Musicmatch (sold to Yahoo! ). TVT

690-512: The online magazine UrbanSouth ' s elite list of underground hip hop albums. TVT Records TVT Records , originally Tee-Vee Toons , was an American record label founded by Steve Gottlieb in 1984. Initially created to release the Television's Greatest Hits series of classic TV theme tune compilations, the label would expand into rap , industrial rock , and electronic music amassing 25 Gold, Platinum, and Multi-Platinum albums over

720-1259: The remaining equity in the company was acquired by Sony Music Entertainment for over $ 200 million. IODA (Independent Online Distribution Alliance) was a global sales, marketing and distribution company with majority stake owned by Sony . The subsidiary serviced independent artists, labels, filmmakers and other content providers on digital and mobile outlets, including making copyright claims on online content. Founded in 2003, IODA provided various distribution, marketing, publishing and administrative services to selected independent record labels, physical distributors, video companies, recording artists, filmmakers, print media publishers and independent authors, including license negotiations, media encoding and metadata management, royalty payment administration and reporting, and marketing and promotional support. IODA had relationships with major mobile and online download retailers including iTunes , eMusic , Rhapsody and Amazon.com . On July 1, 2009, Sony Music Entertainment and IODA announced their global strategic partnership to leverage combined worldwide online retail distribution networks and complementary technologies to support independent labels and music rightsholders. On March 5, 2012, Sony acquired

750-736: The remaining stake of IODA. The company's operations were merged with the Orchard. The Orchard's YouTube multi-channel network has more than 1,000 channels across the globe and uses technology, built in-house, called B.A.C.O.N. (Bulk Automated Claiming on The Orchard Network) to crawl, claim and track YouTube videos to monetize for their clients. It was ranked 7th in the U.S. in July 2014. YouTube users have expressed concerns about The Orchard claiming copyright ownership of music used in user-generated content that may or may not belong to them. According to an article by The Orchard on their Daily Rind blog, if audio

780-417: The resulting litigation Universal was prohibited by the courts from releasing the album created with TVT's funding. In the ultimate trial over the claims of fraud and tortious interference, a jury awarded TVT a $ 132 million judgment. Universal appealed the ruling. On appeal, Cohen and Universal argued the existence of an agreement between the parties meant that their behavior was only a breach of contract and not

810-401: The royalties made from future NIN releases. In 1996 Crain's named Gottlieb one of its Forty Under 40 Rising Stars to Watch, citing the 50% yearly growth of TVT. In 1999 TVT completed a securitization that enabled it to raise $ 23.5 million in growth capital . In 2000, TVT became the first label to put its entire catalog online available for downloading and free streaming by fans. In 2001,

840-545: The single " Head Like a Hole " that was longer in length than the original album, and started underpaying Reznor, along with pressuring him to make a follow-up record that sounded identical to Pretty Hate Machine . Scared that TVT would interfere with his creative control, Reznor, in secret, started recording what would become Broken in 1992. He met Jimmy Iovine , founder of Interscope Records , and finally, in 1992, Reznor and TVT reached an agreement where NIN would leave TVT and move to Interscope, but TVT would receive some of

870-482: Was one of the founding members of the Association of Independent Music (A2IM), an organization devoted to protecting independent labels' interests. In 2002, the label got into a dispute with Lyor Cohen , then head of Island Def Jam . The dispute involved Cohen and Universal paying former TVT artist Ja Rule $ 8 million to not deliver an album paid for by TVT, and promised to TVT and instead deliver it to Universal . In

900-413: Was tension between Gottlieb and NIN frontman Trent Reznor throughout the promotion. According to Reznor, Gottlieb called Nine Inch Nails' record an "abortion". He said to him: "You fucked up what could have been a good career." When Pretty Hate Machine sold 1,000,000 copies, Gottlieb reacted rudely, ordering the band to sell 4 million copies of the follow-up. While NIN was on tour, TVT released an EP for

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