The estate of Jimi Hendrix is taking further legal action in an attempt to stop UK record label Purple Haze from selling what they claim are unauthorised Hendrix recordings. The move follows that previously reported court victory earlier this year in which the Seattle based Experience Hendrix company successfully prevented Purple Haze Records from selling a recording of a Hendrix concert recorded in Stockholm in 1969. Experience Hendrix now hope to use that precedent to get the courts to stop the record label from distributing other Hendrix recordings.
Purple Haze, who are still appealing the Stockholm recording decision, responded the latest legal action by saying: "We're continuing to fight this". They say that they are at liberty to release the Stockholm and other Hendrix recordings relating to an agreement they have with one John Hillman, a British lawyer who was involved with Yameta, the Bahamian tax shelter with whom Hendrix signed a contract in 1966. However, in the Stockholm case, the courts questioned whether Hendrix's agreement with Hillman covered recording rights.