Claims the band owes her royalties "in the hundreds of thousands" (sounds like she has no idea of a specific amount) and is suing for $3 million. Also claims that the 7 songs in question have no evidence they were intended to be soundgarden songs yet 3 songs chris co-wrote with matt and 1 with shepherd and 1 with thayil. Claims that chris specified to her that the songs were to be worked on with a specific producer insinuating in the event he wasn't around to make that decision and wasn't a mutual band decision. According to Washington state law she has no partnership in the group. I'm no lawyer but I can find several things wrong here!!
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This line from the Rolling Stone article is pretty interesting: ‘Still, Vicky Cornell’s suit alleges that Soundgarden “has not produced any partnership documents, much less any documentation signed by Chris, supporting their conclusory claims of ownership.”‘
I don’t pretend to have any idea about the inner workings of a band, but these guys had been making music together for the better part of 35 years. I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that they would generate official, signed documentation every time they went into the studio just to make it clear that everything they’re working on is explicitly for Soundgarden. How could anyone assume that Chris working on songs co-written by other SG members was intended for anything but SG? The law can be weird and unexpected verdicts definitely happen, but her position seems like it would be really weak to any objective observer.
This isn’t unusual. More money, more problems. Unfortunate, but not unusual. This is why it is so important to be prepared for the hit by a bus event. Have your affairs in order.
Songs released as solo material =100% money to VC Songs released as Soundgarden=shared royalty
I would rather have Kim, Matt, and Ben finish the songs ala Beatles Anthology than ala a Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck release.
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Missoula 6/20/98
Alpine Valley 6/26/98 & 6/27/98
Alpine Valley 10/8/00
Champaign 4/23/03
Alpine Valley 6/21/03
Missoula 8/29/05
Chicago 5/16 & 17/06
Grand Rapids 5/19/06
Summerfest 6/29/06 & 6/30/06
Tampa 6/12/08
Chicago 8/23/09
Indy 5/7/10
Alpine Valley x2 2011
Wrigley 2013
Milwaukee 14
Telluride 16
I don’t pretend to have any idea about the inner workings of a band, but these guys had been making music together for the better part of 35 years. I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that they would generate official, signed documentation every time they went into the studio just to make it clear that everything they’re working on is explicitly for Soundgarden. How could anyone assume that Chris working on songs co-written by other SG members was intended for anything but SG? The law can be weird and unexpected verdicts definitely happen, but her position seems like it would be really weak to any objective observer.
Songs released as Soundgarden=shared royalty
I would rather have Kim, Matt, and Ben finish the songs ala Beatles Anthology than ala a Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck release.
astoria 06
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reading 06
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this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -