#The Jesus and Mary Chain Sue Warner Music Group for Copyright Infringement
“#The Jesus and Mary Chain Sue Warner Music Group for Copyright Infringement”
The Reids and their attorney build their argument around Section 203 of the Copyright Act of 1976. Section 203 allows authors to ask copyright holders to terminate grants of copyright ownership 35 years after a work’s publication.
On January 7, 2019, the Reids sent a notice of termination to WMG for five albums—Psychocandy, 1987’s Darklands, the 1988 compilation Barbed Wire Kisses, 1989’s Automatic, and 1992’s Honey’s Dead—as well as various singles and EPs. Some of the singles and EPs had effective termination dates of January 8, 2021, while Psychocandy’s purported termination date was January 22, 2021, according to documentation filed with the lawsuit. (The other albums’ termination dates are in 2022 and beyond.)
In a December 2020 letter to the Reids, an attorney for WMG label Rhino responded, “WMG is the owner of the copyrights throughout the world in each of the sound recordings comprising the Noticed Works, and the Notice is not effective to terminate WMG’s U.S. rights.”
The Rhino attorney wrote that the Reids and their former bandmate Douglas Hart agreed that “[WMG predecessor] WEA was the ‘maker’ of the Noticed Works and the first owner of the copyright in the Noticed Works” when they signed with WEA in 1985. “As a result, you never owned any copyrights in the recordings which you could terminate,” the lawyer told the Reids.
Since receiving Rhino’s letter, the Jesus and Mary Chain have sent notices of termination with additional works in April and June 2021.
In a statement, the Reids’ lawyer Evan S. Cohen said:
Cohen is also representing various artists in a copyright infringement and declaratory relief. lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group; the class action suit was filed in a New York federal court in 2019. Cohen provided a nearly identical press statement at the time of the suit’s filing.
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