{"id":176128,"date":"2025-12-09T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176128\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:14:09","slug":"uk-trial-opens-in-dispute-over-jimi-hendrix-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176128\/","title":{"rendered":"UK trial opens in dispute over Jimi Hendrix recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Redding and Mitchell, who died in the 2000s, formed the band with American rock legend Hendrix in 1966. <\/p>\n

The group broke up shortly before Hendrix, the famed guitarist from Seattle, died after a drug overdose in September 1970.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth men died in relative poverty, having earned almost nothing from the recordings that defined their careers and their lives,\u201d the claimants\u2019 lawyers said in written submissions.<\/p>\n

The pair was \u201cmarginalised\u201d by producers, administrators of the Hendrix Estate and now, by a \u201cmajor multinational which refuses to recognise or remunerate their copyright and performers\u2019 rights\u201d, the claimants\u2019 submission added.<\/p>\n

Sony Music UK rejects the claim.<\/p>\n

It argues that ownership of the copyright to the sound recordings lay with producers, not musicians under a 1960s agreement, and that releases signed in the 1970s granted consent for the recordings to be exploited \u201cby any means and method whether then or thereafter known,\u201d effectively settling the issue decades ago.<\/p>\n

The claimants counter that digital exploitation, including streaming, could not have been contemplated when those releases were signed.<\/p>\n

The trial is due to conclude on December 18 with a judgment expected in writing at a later date.<\/p>\n

-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Redding and Mitchell, who died in the 2000s, formed the band with American rock legend Hendrix in 1966.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2586,23930,112923,1349,13731,156,17515,2219,4925,2959,78,112921,6712,1619,1362,157,111,139,69,2680,1523,112922,12718,1629,54,1613],"class_list":["post-176128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1960s","tag-band","tag-britishamerican","tag-court","tag-dispute","tag-entertainment","tag-experience","tag-gone","tag-hendrix","tag-high","tag-in","tag-jimi","tag-legal","tag-london","tag-made","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opens","tag-over","tag-recordings","tag-rights","tag-rock","tag-trial","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}