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Do Oasis’ rights Live Forever, or will the challenge hit a Wonderwall? | Commercial Awareness Compass #95
On the 29th of September, British rock band Oasis and Sony Music applied to the High Court to halt the public auction of an archive containing over 100 hours of unreleased recordings. The archive included 63 live concerts, private conversations, and soundchecks captured off mixing desks by a former sound engineer in the 1990s.
With a guide price setting the physical tapes at £1.2 - £1.6 million, the lot was pulled on the exact day the claim was filed. However, a major legal distinction sits at the heart of this dispute: owning physical cassette tapes does not grant the right to release or…
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