"No Woman No Cry" BSI and another v Blue Mountain Music Appeal
Bob Marley Author Eddie Marlin Source Wikipedia Creative Commons Licence Between 1973 and 1976 Bob Marley wrote the words and composed the music for 13 songs of which the most famous was No Woman No Cry . At that time Marley was under contract to a New York company called Cayman Music Inc . ( "CMI" ) which should have acquired the copyrights in those songs and the resulting royalties. To get round that contract Marley pretended that those works had been written by other individuals who collected those revenues and may possibly have shared them with him. Marley died in 1981. After his death CMI sued Marley's estate in the New York courts for the moneys that it should have received under the contract and Marley's personal representative counterclaimed for rescission of Marley's contract with CMI. CMI's claim was found to be statute barred in New York but no decision was ever made on the counterclaim. On 20 March 1992 Is...