Jim and William Reid fight to win back albums using US law which reverts rights to artists after 35 years
The Jesus and Mary Chain are suing Warner
music Group (WMG) for $2.5m (£1.77m) for copyright infringement after the company refused to terminate its ownership of five of their albums including the 1985 debut Psychocandy.
In a lawsuit filed in
California, Jim and William Reid invoked section 203 of the US Copyright Act of 1976, which allows authors to ask copyright holders to revert rights 35 years after a work is published, Pitchfork reports.