Editing Connie Francis (section)

===Lawsuits===
Francis brought a suit alleging that [[Universal Music Group]] (UMG) took advantage of her condition and stopped paying royalties.  The lawsuit was dismissed.

On November 27, 2002, she filed a second suit against UMG alleging the label had inflicted severe emotional distress on her and violated her [[Moral rights (copyright law)|moral rights]] when, without her permission, it synchronized several of her songs into "sexually themed" movies: the 1994 film ''[[Post Cards from America]]'', the 1996 film ''[[The Craft (film)|The Craft]]'', and the 1999 film ''[[Jawbreaker (film)|Jawbreaker]]''.<ref name=Lawsuit2002>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lavelysinger.com/MoralRights.pdf |last=Self |first=Henry |title=Moral Rights and Musicians in the United States |work=2003–2004 Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts Handbook 165 |year=2003 |access-date=April 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916073046/http://www.lavelysinger.com/MoralRights.pdf |archive-date=September 16, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This suit was also dismissed.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bureau of |first1=National Affairs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KXUoAQAAMAAJ |title=BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal |year=2003 |page=228 |access-date=2017-10-17 }}</ref>

Francis also sued the producers of ''[[Jawbreaker (film)|Jawbreaker]]'' for using her song "Lollipop Lips," which is heard during a sex scene.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Who's+sorry+now,+indeed.+(the+Buzz).-a084669421 | title=Who's sorry now, indeed – the Buzz – Connie Francis suit against Universal Music Corp |publisher=Liberation Publications, Inc.
| magazine=The Advocate |date=April 16, 2002 |access-date=2013-09-21}}</ref>