Soundgarden, Tupac, Hole and more sue Universal Music over recordings destroyed in 2008 fire

Musicians Courtney Love and the estate of Tupac Shakur are parties to a lawsuit filed Friday against Universal Music Group.

“UMG concealed its massive recovery from plaintiffs, apparently hoping it could keep it all to itself by burying the truth in sealed court filings and a confidential settlement agreement,” the suit states. “Most importantly, UMG did not share any of its recovery with plaintiffs, the artists whose life works were destroyed in the fire — even though, by the terms of their recording contracts, plaintiffs are entitled to 50% of those proceeds and payments.

The suit, filed jointly by King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano, McPherson LLP and Susman Godfrey, all Los Angeles-based firms, alleges that UMG did not take “all reasonable steps to make sure [master recordings] are not damaged, abused, destroyed, wasted, lost or stolen” and “it did not ‘speak up immediately [when it saw] abuse or misuse’ of assets.”

“At this point, it appears that the fire consumed no irreplaceable master recordings, just copies,” a. “The studio and the record company both are fortunate enough to have the resources to preserve multiple copies of their source materials around the country. They’ve also been duplicating their recordings in high-quality digital formats, creating additional backups in the event the originals are lost.

Why tf wouldn’t they have digital files back in 2008? Bitches been having Macs

Poor rich people/estates.

Glad Tupac's were destroyed, they should have burned that crap years ago.

I knew it!

Gotta love a bit of posthumous litigation tupac . Only in America 🤦‍♂️😂

Tupac?

It’s the first legal action taken since news surfaced last week of the extent of damage from the June 1, 2008, blaze that decimated a storage facility on the lot at Universal Studios Hollywood that housed a trove of recordings in UMG’s possession.

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