Big Time Rush creator Scott Fellows is reportedly suing Sony Music for allegedly cheating him out of the band's reunion tour profits.
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Fellows, who created Nickelodeon's hit musical comedy series about a fictional boy band, which ran from 2009 to 2013, has brought a series of breach of contract claims against Sony.
He claims the record label intentionally "concocted a bad faith entity shell game" to cut him out of a 2021 licensing deal that allowed Big Time Rush to reunite as an independent entity, in exchange for 10% of future revenues.
During the show's original run, the real-life members of Big Time Rush - Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Logan Henderson and Carlos PenaVega - released music and toured under a deal with Sony Music.
According to Fellows' lawsuit, he received contractual payments amounting to 3.75% of the band's touring revenue until its members went their separate ways in 2014.
As stated in the complaint, when Big Time Rush reunited in 2021, the group struck a deal to go independent from Nickelodeon and Sony Music. The lawsuit reveals that the band licensed its trademarks and past music from Sony and Nickelodeon in exchange for 10% of future revenues.
Fellows' attorneys allege in the lawsuit that Sony "restructured its inter-company arrangements" and his rights to his share of touring revenue were eliminated.
Fellows is now seeking to recoup his cut of Big Time Rush's 2022 reunion tour, as well as the band's In Real Life world tour, which is scheduled to kick off on Wednesday, 9 July.
Update (2/12/26): Scott Fellows, who created the hit show about a fictional boy band that ran on Nickelodeon from 2009 to 2013, sued Sony this past summer, alleging the major music company nefariously structured Big Time Rush’s 2021 reunion deal to cut him out of touring revenues. Now, a Thursday (Jan. 29) federal court notice says the matter has been resolved, Billboard Pro reports.
“The parties have reached a settlement in [principle] of the above-titled matter,” reads the joint filing from Fellows and Sony, which does not spell out any terms of the resolution. Reps for both sides did not immediately return requests for comment on the matter.
The real-life members of Big Time Rush released music and toured under a deal with Sony during the heyday of their Nickelodeon show. According to Fellows’ lawsuit, this deal gave him 3.75% of the band’s touring revenue until its members went their separate ways in 2014.
Big Time Rush reunited in 2021, but this time they opted to go independent. Fellows claims the band licensed its trademarks and catalog in exchange for giving Nickelodeon and Sony 10% of future revenues — but that Sony intentionally wrote the terms of this licensing deal to eliminate his share of the profits.
Fellows’ lawsuit sought to recoup a 3.75% share of the earnings from Big Time Rush’s 2022 reunion tour and the ongoing In Real Life World Tour, which kicked off in July and is set to run through March.
Big Time Rush the band was not named in the lawsuit or accused of any wrong-doing. Reps for the group did not return a request for comment on the settlement.
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Originally published: July 09, 2025.
Original source: Cover Media / Yahoo! News.
