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Noel Redding Estate Limited v Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
[2024] EWHC 128 (Ch)
Key Principle
On an application for summary judgment or strike-out in a dispute over copyright and performers' property rights in the Jimi Hendrix Experience recordings, the court will refuse to dispose of the claim summarily where the issues of ownership and the effect of historic releases and assignments are genuinely triable and not unarguable.
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