Thousands of master tapes lost in Universal fire

[jboy88]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...cid=spartandhp

Questlove confirms that his masters are gone. He stated that the B-F and O-S files took the most damage.

[sansradio]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...cid=spartandhp

Questlove confirms that his masters are gone. He stated that the B-F and O-S files took the most damage.

My Lord. The amount of litigation stemming from this will be unreal.

[StuBass1]

My Lord. The amount of litigation stemming from this will be unreal.

I suspect legal action 10 years later would be problematic at best...and rarely do statute of limitation laws extend out 10 years... In California, Statute if Limitation laws in Contractual Civil cases range from 1-4 years...

[sansradio]

I suspect legal action 10 years later would be problematic at best...and rarely do statute of limitation laws extend out 10 years... In California, Statute if Limitation laws in Contractual Civil cases range from 1-4 years...

I see. Well, that just compounds my disgust over how this was handled all the more. I mean, the cynicism of it all! Thanks for the info, stu.

[kenneth]

I suspect legal action 10 years later would be problematic at best...and rarely do statute of limitation laws extend out 10 years... In California, Statute if Limitation laws in Contractual Civil cases range from 1-4 years...

That's true, but the clock starts running when the Plaintiff "knew or should have known" about the damages. So if the fact that the masters were destroyed was kept secret until this year, then the clock wouldn't start running until now because none of the Plaintiffs could have known of the damages prior to the information finally leaking out.