HDH made a series of bad deals to sell off their royalties for a one time cash settlement. This is not uncommon in recent years in the recording industry. Lamont Dozier reportedly was dealing with the same type of issues as Mr Holland. I was having a lunch with a very prominent recording artist who was telling me about a proposal during a lunch he and Lionel Richie were offered similar to the HDH situation and they walked out on it...Wise move...Not all of these deals work well...I do know of a few cases however, where it's worked out for some others...