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Hendrix Estate fire back on Georgia Blues lawsuit
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 18 October 2010
The Jimi Hendrix Estate has hit back at a previously reported lawsuit, instigated by saxophone player Lonnie Youngblood, by filing a countersuit.
As previously reported, Youngblood claims that he owns the copyright in a recording he collaborated on with Jimi called ‘Georgia Blues’, which the Hendrix estate then licensed to the producers of a soundtrack that accompanied a 2003 Martin Scorsese-directed documentary on the legendary guitarist. Youngblood claims he is due a share of the royalties generated by the album and damages, because the Hendrix estate and soundtrack producers both failed to get his permission to use the recording prior to release.
But in their countersuit, the Hendrix Estate argue that they own the master recording of the track, even though Youngblood did subsequently register the copyright in it and digitally release the song in 2002. They say that Hendrix paid for the studio costs associated with the recording, and produced the track, and therefore owned the recording outright. They want a judge to dismiss Youngblood’s lawsuit, remove his name as owner of the track on the copyright register and to force the musician to account for any royalties made on his 2002 release of the song.
Youngblood is yet to respond.
