Dispute over Jimi Hendrix Experience catalogue should be heard in UK, say UK-based estates of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell
completemusicupdate.comCompanies representing the estates of Jimi Hendrix Experience members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell have requested that legal action filed with the courts in New York by the Hendrix estate and Sony Music be dismissed on jurisdiction grounds.
That legal action seeks court confirmation that agreements reached between the Hendrix estate and Mitchell and Redding back in the early 1970s are still in force.The UK-based companies representing the Redding and Mitchell estates have filed their own litigation in the English courts, specifically against Sony Music UK.
They claim that the two estates control rights in the Jimi Hendrix Experience catalogue – which is distributed by Sony – and that those rights are being infringed while loads of royalties go unpaid.Before they filed their lawsuits, the Redding and Mitchell companies issued a cease-and-desist to Sony in London.
That prompted the major in the US – alongside the companies that manage the Hendrix estate – to file papers with the New York courts.They argue that, after Hendrix’s death in 1970, both Redding and Mitchell signed agreements with the Hendrix estate via which they basically gave up any copyright or royalty claims in relation to recordings made by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in return for “significant monetary consideration”.
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