The estates of Jimi Hendrix's former bandmates have asked a U.S. judge to toss out a suit filed by the Hendrix Estate and Sony Music that challenges their copyright, saying the dispute belongs in the English courts.
<p>Lawyers for the Hendrix family argued that a suit for back royalties by the heirs of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell were invalid because of waivers signed by the guitarist's British bandmates soon after his 1970 death. </p>
Estate claims families of Hendrix’s bassist and drummer threatened them with a copyright infringement case over ‘millions of pounds’ of unpaid royalties