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The estates of Jimi Hendrix's former bandmates have asked a U.S. judge to toss out a suit filed by the Hendrix Estate and Sony Music that challenges their copyright, saying the dispute belongs in the English courts.
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Lawyers representing the Jimi Hendrix estate -- Experience Hendrix, LLC -- and Sony Music Entertainment preemptively filed suit on January 18th against the estates of late-Jimi Hendrix Experience members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell. Rolling Stone reported the legal action was prompted by a letter sent to Sony last December from British attorney, Lawrence Abramson, claiming the label owed Redding's and Mitchell's estates performance royalties for some three billion streams of the Experience's songs." Experience Hendrix and Sony's lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Distri...
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The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Handout When the Toronto-based non-profit group Over the Bridge recently posted new songs eerily in the styles of dead musicians Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and Jim Morrison, interest was widespread. In a feature piece, Rolling Stone magazine detailed the algorithmic process used to create the digital homages. Natio...