Armen Boladian is a former record producer, founder of Detroit

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

-based Westbound Records

Westbound Records

Westbound Records is a Detroit-based record label founded by Armen Boladian in 1970. It had a distribution deal with Janus Records from 1970 to 1975, but then it switched distribution to 20th Century Records during 1975 and 1976, but again switched distribution to Atlantic Records from 1976 to...

 in 1970.

Boladian is currently the head of Bridgeport Music Inc. (established 1969), a catalogue company in possession of most of George Clinton

George Clinton (funk musician)

George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...

's catalogue. In 2001 Bridgeport filed over 500 counts of copyright infringements against 800 artists and studios for using samples of Clinton's work without proper licensing.

External links

• Jay-Z Versus the Sample Troll: The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop, Slate.com article on Boladian