Arista Injunction Locks Up Parsons Project's Music
Variety - May 20, 1981
Arista Records has been granted a temporary restraining order which will
block the Alan parsons Project from offering its product to other
diskeries. Injunction is the latest development in the label's
$450,000,000 breach of contract suit against group members Parsons, Eric
Woolfson and Woolfsongs, Ltd. (Variety, May 6).
Suit stems from label's recent rejection of group's master tapes for an LP
project titled "The Sicilian Defense." Group delivered tapes, which the
diskery characterized as "amusing," after failing to persuade the label to
make requested changes in the artists' contract. Artists contend that
Arista's rejection of the "Sicilian" tapes constituted a breach of
contract by the label and claim free agency status.
The temporary restraining order prevents the Parsons group from shopping
product to rival diskeries until July 6. On that date, a hearing will be
held in Manhattan Federal Court to determine whether or not to grant
Arista a permanent inunction.
Group's current LP, "The Turn Of A Friendly Card," has been a strong
seller.
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