Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) performs at Golden Bear raceway in Sacramento, California on April 26, 1970. (Photo by Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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Jimi Hendrix’s family has filed a lawsuit against the heirs of his late Jimi Hendrix Experience bandmates Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell. This is about copyright claims.
The background is an ongoing lawsuit by the heirs of the former bandmates. As a result, on Jan. 18, attorney for Experience Hendrix, the singer’s estate, LLC and Sony Music Entertainment, Dorothy Weber, responded by filing a counterclaim in US District Court in the Southern District of New York.
According to the US edition of ROLLING STONE, British lawyer Lawrence Abramson has filed a lawsuit against Sony Music, insisting that the label owe the heirs of Redding and Mitchell proportionate money for around 3 billion streams of The Experience songs. – A concrete amount was not known. However, he classified the profit from streaming revenue in the millions. If the label does not heed the lawyer’s letter, the amount could increase further.
Experience Hendrix and Sony are fighting back
Experience Hendrix and Sony countered this accusation by recalling that the heirs of the former band members had once agreed to a waiver. Redding is said to have signed this in April 1972 and Mitchell in September 1973 by mutual consent.
Mitchell’s and Redding’s heirs are now contesting the validity of those waivers. On the other hand, Experience Hendrix would like to have the contracts checked by a judicial decision, which should confirm the meaningfulness of the contracts. Experience Hendrix’s attorney says the claims for participation are unlawful and time-barred.