by Elise Yablon | Feb 17, 2020 | News
We now know a little bit more about what was lost in the 2008 Universal Studios warehouse fire. In new court filings made public on Thursday (13), Universal Music Group gave a basic account of which artists lost their master recordings in the blaze. The 19...
by Elise Yablon | Jul 22, 2019 | News
Universal Music Group has been meticulously combing their archives recently, attempting to investigate what may have been lost in the 2008 fire that destroyed a storage facility on the backlot of NBCUniversal’s Hollywood studio. On Wednesday (17th), chief archivist...
by Elise Yablon | Jun 27, 2019 | News
It looks like more artists than originally thought may have lost their recordings in the 2008 Universal Music Group fire. A new article published in the New York Times Magazine on Tuesday (25th) lists more than 700 names believed to have lost their master tapes...
by Elise Yablon | Jun 25, 2019 | News
A class-action lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles on Friday (21st) against Universal Music Group in the wake of the 2008 fire that potentially destroyed more than 500,00 recordings. The lawsuit, which was obtained by Variety, was brought on by attorneys representing the...
by Elise Yablon | Jun 19, 2019 | News
Last week, news broke that thousands of master tapes perished in a 2008 fire that broke out at a Universal Music Group storage facility. Now, artists who lost valuable originals in the blaze could be filing lawsuits against the label with some suits expected to come...