"Sony is doing everything it can to support the artist in these circumstances," the lawyer added, "but is legally unable to terminate the contract to which it is not a party." The Times reports that Kesha's contract with Luke is "through a separate deal with his production company, Kasz Money Inc."
This just seems like they're trying to seem like the good ones lol.
They're Sony for ****s sake. They literally don't have to "bow to Luke's terms". They could easily threaten to have all their artists never work with him if he doesn't terminate his end of the contract. They're the ones with the power and he's already in hot water and possibly over in Hollywood anyways. Them trying to say Dr. Luke is putting them on mute just doesn't seem realistic. If a corporation as big as Sony wants an artist's contract completely terminated they will work their power.
but they legally managed to break luke's contract / find a loophole and let him work with katy perry when it says that he could only work exclusively for sony artist. OK SONY!