StoneMtn Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Battle over Jimi's songsOctober 27, 2006 02:30pmA PRIVATE bidder paid $US15 million (almost $A20 million) for the rights to hit songs by U.S. rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix at an auction yesterday.But a company owned by the musician's family said it will sue to prove it owns the songs. The rights, title, and interest to songs including Hey Joe, Purple Haze, Voodoo Child, and Foxy Lady, were sold over the telephone in New York by the estate of Michael Frank Jeffrey, Hendrix's one-time manager. Hendrix, who was born in Seattle, died in 1970 at the age of 27 in London, after choking on his own vomit. About 600,000 of his albums are still sold annually. Jeffrey died in a plane crash three years later. Fourteen charities based in Britain, including the Asthma Research Council, the British Heart Foundation and the Kings College Hospital are the beneficiaries of Jeffrey's estate. "Whoever bought this bought themselves the right to be a litigant," said Bob Merlis, a spokesman for Experience Hendrix. The Seattle-based company is owned by members of Hendrix's family. "It will be contested instantly," he added. Experience Hendrix says it owns all rights to the music, and recordings of the guitarist. The auctioneer, the auctions division of Chicago-based merchant bank Ocean Tomo, declined to comment on the ownership of rights to the songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 so Michael Jeffrey's Estate was the one that soul'd the rights? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted October 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Yes. My understanding is that, now, the question is whether or not they had title to that property in the first instance, such that they could legally sell it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Yet another argument in favour of unbridled music piracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edger Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Atleast his estate appeared to be going to charity (not that that makes it right if they songs weren't his to sell in the first place) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Yet another argument in favour of unbridled music piracy.You are going to have to explain that one to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Yet another argument in favour of unbridled music piracy.I think it's more an argument in favour of very careful negotiations of the rights/ownership of creative work, and of the necessity for a well set up estate to administer the rights/ownership in case of the death of the owner(s).Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted October 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Yet another argument in favour of unbridled music piracy.I think it's more an argument in favour of very careful negotiations of the rights/ownership of creative work' date=' and of the necessity for a well set up estate to administer the rights/ownership in case of the death of the owner(s).Aloha,Brad[/quote']Yet another argument in favour of unbridled use of lawyers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Yet another argument in favour of unbridled use of lawyers.How about arguments for the bridled use of lawyers? Maybe require lawyers to have two rates, a low one for unbridled use, and higher one that requires them to be bridled when they're working for you. (A lawyer could, with approval of his/her law society, have the rate scales reversed if he/she so desired.)Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Booche, does all that answer your question ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 Fuck no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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