Jimi Hendrix Experience copyright trial set for December
The estates of the guitarist's bandmates, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, are taking legal action against Sony Music Entertainment UK (SMEUK).
Lawyers for the estates said the copyright and performers' rights on the albums Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold As Love, and Electric Ladyland should belong with the estates of Mr Redding and Mr Mitchell, who both died in the 2000s.
Mr Redding, on bass, and Mr Mitchell, on drums, formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience with the Seattle guitarist in 1966, and the group broke up shortly before Mr Hendrix died of a drug overdose in 1970.
Robert Howe KC, for SMEUK, said that as a sub-licencee of the US-based Sony Music Entertainment, which is itself a licencee of Experience Hendrix LLC, the company has commercially exploited the recordings of the three albums in the UK since 2009.
In written submissions for a High Court hearing on Wednesday, he said that Mr Hendrix's father was the sole heir to his son's estate.
He also said that Mr Redding and Mr Mitchell themselves brought claims over the recordings in New York in the 1970s and received 100,000 US dollars and 247,500 US dollars, respectively.
Since that time, the Hendrix estate has exploited the recordings 'without serious objections by Noel Redding or Mitch Mitchell or anyone claiming to derive rights from either of them', Mr Howe added.
He asked the court to allow an amendment to SMEUK's defence that would permit it to include a chain of title – to show how ownership of the rights has been transferred throughout the years.
Simon Malynicz KC, for the estates of Mr Redding and Mr Mitchell, opposed the application, saying that to allow it would threaten to derail the start date for the trial, set for December 1.
In written submissions, he said: 'Whilst previous applications delayed the proceedings from moving forward, this application threatens to bring them to a grinding halt.'
He continued: 'It is submitted that all the facts are against the defendant in relation to whether discretion should be exercised to allow for a very late amendment and for this reason alone the application to amend should be dismissed.'
Mr Justice Edwin Johnson granted the application and described Mr Malynicz's claims that the lateness of the application would disrupt the trial's start date as 'exaggerated'.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
'Enemy of Allah': Iran-linked group crowdfunds $40 million for assassination of Trump
The group 'Blood Covenant' reportedly launched the assassination campaign following fatwas issued by multiple Iranian clerics. A crowdfunding effort, linked to a former employee of Iran's state media, has raised $40 million as a bounty for the assassination of US PresidentDonald Trump, The New York Post reported last Saturday. The group 'Blood Covenant' reportedly launched the assassination campaign following fatwas issued by multiple Iranian clerics. Following Trump's orders to bomb three Iranian nuclear facilities, the clerics reportedly labeled Trump as an 'enemy of Allah.' 'We pledge to award the prize to whoever can bring the militants and those who threaten the life of the Deputy of Imam Mahdi (may our souls be sacrificed for him) to justice for their actions,' the Blood Covenant wrote on its website. The US-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) think tank reported that Blood Covenant runs 'under the aegis of the Iranian regime.' 'This is a call to jihad, inviting believers to donate their money and sacrifice their lives,' MEMRI said in an analysis of the fundraising effort. 'The poster lends religious legitimacy to assassinating Trump. 'The fact that these calls to assassinate Trump are coming from above and being echoed in the street and through all strata of society, including in the Iranian media … reflects a broad religious and regime consensus strengthened by reiterated emphasis of the reward anyone carrying out the punishment against Trump can expect to receive — in addition to the $40.3 million, also Paradise and the status of a defender of Islam.' Blood Covenant's efforts were reportedly supported by ten Iranian state-appointed clerics, according to dissident media site Iran International. Additionally, the London-based dissident media reported that Azeri, a state-appointed cleric in Iran's West Azarbaijan Province, announced a reward of 100 billion tomans (approximately $1.14 million) for the murder of the US president. 'We will give 100 billion tomans to anyone who brings the head of Trump,' said Mansour Emami, the provincial director of the official Islamic Propagation Organization in West Azerbaijan. Despite the clerics being state-appointed, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said during his interview with Tucker Carlson, 'To the best of my knowledge, they have not issued decrees or fatwas against any individual or against Donald Trump. It has nothing to do with the Iranian government or the Supreme Leader of Iran.' Attempts on US President Donald Trump's life A Pakistani national alleged to have ties with Iran wascharged in 2024 for planning the assassination of a number of US officials, including Trump. The alleged goal of Asif Merchant was to target those in the US who were "hurting Pakistan and the world, [the] Muslim world," the CNN report said, citing the court documents. Additionally, the Justice Department reported in 2024 that one of three American citizens charged with the attempted assassination of Trump was also surveilling two Jewish American citizens and claimed an IRGC official offered him $500,000 for the murder of either the president or American Jewry. Shir Perets contributed to this report.
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
‘JACKBOYS 2' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
The JACKBOYS 2 project from Travis Scott and his JACKBOYS collective debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated July 26), earning 232,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending July 17, according to Luminate. The set was announced in March and is the follow-up to the first JACKBOYS set, which debuted at No. 1 on the Jan. 11, 2020-dated chart. A release date wasn't shared for the new album until July 10, when Scott announced the set would drop on July 13. (Thus, JACKBOYS 2 debuts on the Billboard 200 with five days of activity in its first week on the chart. Most albums are released on Friday of each week; Luminate's tracking week for the chart runs Friday through Sunday.) More from Billboard GloRilla Turns Up Indianapolis With Fiery 2025 WNBA All-Star Game Halftime Show Performance Mariah Carey Teases 'Sugar Sweet' Summer Single Billie Eilish and James Cameron 3D Collaboration in the Works JACKBOYS 2 (also the top-selling album of the week) leads a busy top 10 on the latest Billboard 200, where five albums debut in the region — the most in more than two years. Plus, a former No. 2-peaking album reenters the chart in the top 10. Justin Bieber's surprise album SWAG starts at No. 2 (with Bieber's biggest streaming week ever, it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums); Clipse's first album in nearly 16 years, Let God Sort Em Out, debuts at No. 4; TWICE's THIS IS FOR launches at No. 6; ATEEZ's GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3 (which debuted and peaked at No. 2 in June) re-enters the chart at No. 7 following its deluxe reissue; and GIVĒON's BELOVED starts at No. 8. The last time the top 10 housed at least five debuts was on the July 17, 2023-dated chart, when six albums premiered in the region. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new July 26, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard's website on July 22. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Of JACKBOYS 2's 232,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 17, album sales comprise 160,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 72,000 (equaling 94.86 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs — it debuts at No. 4 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. JACKBOYS 2 was released on July 13 as a seven-song album (as a digital download that was widely available, on five vinyl variants exclusively sold by the JACKBOYS' webstore) and as an expanded 17-song album (available via streaming services, digital download stores and on a JACKBOYS' store-exclusive CD across five variants). The JACKBOYS webstore also offered nine deluxe boxed sets containing branded clothing and a copy of a CD, as well as four webstore-exclusive download album variants (three contained one bonus track each, while one had alternative cover art). On July 17, the final day of the tracking week, a 20-song edition of the album became available to digital retailers and streamers — it contained all the songs on the 17-song edition, along with the three bonus tracks that had previously been only available on the webstore-exclusive download albums. With 232,000 equivalent album units earned in its first week, the JACKBOYS 2 project collects the second-largest debut week for a rap album in 2025 (trailing only the opening frame of Playboi Carti's MUSIC, with 298,000, in March). Plus, with 160,000 albums sold, JACKBOYS 2 logs the largest sales week for a rap album since Scott's Days Before Rodeo rode in with 331,000 on the Sept. 7, 2024-dated chart. Justin Bieber's surprise album SWAG starts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, earning 163,000 equivalent album units in its first week. The album was first teased on July 10, one day before it was released. The 21-track set is the 11th top 10-charted effort for Bieber. Of SWAG's opening-week units sum, SEA units comprise 155,000 equivalent album units (equaling 198.77 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs — that's Bieber's best streaming week ever, and the album debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 6,000 (it debuts at No. 14 on Top Album Sales, it was only available in one standard widely available download album; physical versions aren't expected until December) and TEA units comprise 1,000. After spending its first eight weeks on the Billboard 200 at No. 1, Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem falls to No. 3 with 147,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%). Clipse's first album in nearly 16 years, Let God Sort Em Out, opens at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 118,000 equivalent album units earned, marking the second top 10-charted effort for the brother duo (Pusha T and Malice). The set matches the peak of the pair's debut project, and only other top 10, 2002's Lord Willin', which debuted and peaked at No. 4 on the Sept. 7, 2002-dated chart. Let God Sort Em Out is Clipse's first album since the July 2009 release Til the Casket Drops. The set was preceded by the top 40 hit 'Ace Trumpets' on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Of the new album's 118,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 59,000 (equaling 77.49 million on-demand official streams of the set's tracks — it's Clipse's biggest streaming week, and he project debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 58,000 (it debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000. The new album was issued on July 11 in a widely-available 12-track standard CD and vinyl LP, and as digital download and streaming set with one bonus track. The set's first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across four vinyl variants (including a signed edition), three CD variants (including one signed), two cassette tapes, and more than a dozen deluxe boxed sets exclusive to Clipse's webstore (each containing a piece of branded clothing on a copy of the CD album). In its fourth week, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is pushed down 2-5 on the latest Billboard 200, though it has the largest week-over-week unit gain on the chart. It increases by 10,000 equivalent album units (a 14% jump) to 85,000 in the latest tracking week. KPop Demon Hunters is the only soundtrack to debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 and then see unit increases in its second, third and fourth weeks since the chart began ranking titles by equivalent album units in December 2014. Of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack's 85,000 units earned in its fourth week, SEA units comprise 79,000 (up 14%, equaling 109.53 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs — it's pushed down 2-3 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 5,000 (up 13% — though it's down 9-17 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 10%). KPop Demon Hunters' streaming sum of 109.53 million clicks is the biggest for a soundtrack since Encanto was in its seventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (March 5, 2022; with 114.67 million). KPop Demon Hunters premiered on June 20 in a limited theatrical release in the U.S., and on Netflix, alongside its soundtrack. In the tracking week ending July 13, the animated film held at No. 2 in its fourth week on Netflix's Top 10 Movies in United States chart. TWICE (who also feature on the KPop Demon Hunters album) claims its seventh top 10-charted effort as THIS IS FOR launches at No. 6 with 80,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 68,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 12,000 (equaling 16.21 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Released on July 11, THIS IS FOR was available as a standard widely available digital download and streaming album, across 15 CD and three vinyl variants (all containing collectible ephemera, some randomized). On July 14, a widely available deluxe edition of the album with two bonus tracks was released via digital stores and streamers. ATEEZ's GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the June 28-dated chart, reenters the chart at No. 7 following its deluxe reissue on July 11. The album — with all versions, old and new, combined — earned 79,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week, a gain of 1,489%. Of that sum, album sales comprise 70,000 (up 1,750% — it jumps 12-2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 8,000 (up 595% — with that unit figure equaling 11.21 million on-demand official streams of the album's tracks) and TEA units comprise nearly 1,000. The deluxe set, dubbed GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3 'In Your Fantasy Edition,' includes 10 bonus tracks and was issued across six CD variants (all with collectible ephemera, some randomized, inside its packaging). All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes. GIVĒON's BELOVED bows at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, marking the second top 10-charted set for the artist. It begins with 44,000 equivalent album units earned (his best week ever by units), of which SEA units comprise 36,000 (equaling 47.78 million on-demand official streams of the set's tracks — it debuts at No. 7 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 8,000 (his best sales week ever, it debuts at No. 10 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The new album was preceded by a pair of top 30 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: 'Twenties' (No. 19 in February) and 'Rather Be' (No. 30 in May). BELOVED was available as a standard widely available download and streaming set, as well as across five vinyl variants (including one signed) and two CD variants (one signed). Rounding out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart are two former No. 1s: Wallen's One Thing at a Time falls 3-9 (39,000 equivalent album units; down 1%) and SZA's SOS is pushed down 4-10 (though it gains by 3% to 37,000 units). Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Four Decades of 'Madonna': A Look Back at the Queen of Pop's Debut Album on the Charts Chart Rewind: In 1990, Madonna Was in 'Vogue' Atop the Hot 100 Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Travis Scott's ‘Jackboys 2' Tops Albums Chart
Travis Scott and his Jackboys collective's compilation album Jackboys 2 debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as Billboard reports. It earned 232,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. Of those, 72,000 comprise streaming equivalent albums (SEA) equaling 94.68 million on-demand streams of the album's songs, according to Luminate. The follow-up to the chart-topping EP Jackboys from 2019, the sequel arrived on July 13 with seven songs available as a digital download and came in five vinyl variants. Its expanded version houses 17 tracks, available via digital download, streaming, and on CD with five variants. There is also a 20-song edition that dropped on July 17. More from Rolling Stone Bad Bunny, Travis Scott, Saweetie, and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week Travis Scott Hangs Out With His Amazing Friends on 'Jackboys 2' Watch Clipse Showcase Emotional Track 'The Birds Don't Sing' on Fallon In addition to Scott, Jackboys 2 features Sheck Wes, Don Toliver, SoFaygo, Playboi Carti, Future, SahBabii, Tyla, Vybz Kartel, GloRilla, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Wallie the Sensei, and Kodak Black. It also includes Scott's single, 'Dumbo.' Elsewhere on the chart, Justin Bieber's surprise album Swag bows at Number Two, with 163,000 equivalent album units earned, 155,000 of which are SEA. Swag also debuts at Number One on the Top Streaming Albums chart (earning the equivalent of 198.77 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs), marking Bieber's biggest streaming week ever. Meanwhile, after ruling the top of the albums chart for its first eight weeks, Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem drops to Number Three, with 147,000 equivalent album units earned. Debuting at Number Four is Clipse's Let God Sort Em Out. Their first album in nearly 16 years garners 118,000 equivalent album units. It's the second time the rap duo comprising Pusha T and Malice have made the Top 10, following Clipse's Lord Willin', which also opened at Number Four back on Sept. 7, 2002. Rounding out the Top Five, KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack falls from Number Two to Number Five. In its fourth week on the charts, it earned 85,000 equivalent album units. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
