Exclusive: The Rolling Stones, BMG, and Universal Music Face Appeal in ‘Living in a Ghost Town’ Copyright Suit

The complainant in a copyright violation match versus Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and others is formally appealing the case’s termination.

This submitting celebration just recently sent a notification of appeal, with a Louisiana federal judge havingtossed the fit on jurisdictional premises in October of 2023.

Imposed by Spain citizen and artist Sergio Garcia Fernandez, understood expertly as Angelslang, the initial problem called as offenders the abovementioned Rolling Stones members in addition to Universal Music Group, BMG Rights Management, and the Stones’ Promopub releasing business. (The latter offender was dropped from the match last August, however.)

As explained in the March of 2023 action, Angelslang in 2006 composed and tape-recorded a track entitled “So Sorry,” before producing a work called “Seed of God (Talent in the Trash)” in 2007. The complainant in 2013 forwarded a CD including the efforts– which would in 2019 be launched as part of Brick Songs — to an “instant relative” of Jagger, according to the match.

Lining up with the basic information connected with a selection of other music market violation problemsstated member of the family’s getting and reacting favorably to the tunes apparently prepared for their incorporation (without approval) into The Rolling Stones’ “Living in a Ghost Town” (2020 ).

In general, Angelslang preserves that a variety of the tunes’ components were utilized in the four-year-old Stones release, which had about 47.2 million Spotify streams to its credit at the time of this writing.

As at first highlighted, the accuseds effectively argued for the match’s termination due to the place at hand.

“Because none of the offenders ‘live’ or ‘might be discovered’ in this district, the Court discovers that permitting this action to continue in this jurisdiction would be ‘unreasonable’ to the accuseds and holds that it is an inappropriate place,” Judge Eldon E. Fallon penned when giving the termination movement in October.

As kept in mind at the start, the complainant is appealing the termination to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, according to the matching notification As associated docket entries.

Throughout 2024, it’ll deserve carefully keeping an eye on the appeal– and seeing whether the case continues in the States. The group behind Hackney Diamonds isn’t alone in advising U.S. courts to dismiss problems that might be preferable for various online forums.

In 2015, for example, an appellate court verified the termination of a claim, imposed by a UK-based person versus Nirvana, fixating the supposed violation of art work. The termination was contingent upon the offenders’ concurring to send themselves to the jurisdiction of a UK court must the matter be prosecuted throughout the pond.