Steve Earle is the latest artist to drop his claims against Universal Music Group over a 2008 fire
that first broke news of the fire's destruction in June 2019, “less than 0.1 percent” of the more than 150,000 assets he and his team have reviewed so far were “original recordings” destroyed by the fire.
"For the very few original recordings we believe were impacted, almost all had previously been commercially released and we have located safeties, copies or digital alternatives for every single album," he wrote."In the one instance where an unreleased album was affected, we have located multiple copies and we could still release the album if the artist wishes.
According to the memo, a team of more than 70 specialists have been undertaking the “exhaustive work” of reviewing assets, with Kraus noting that it can take “as long as several weeks” to analyze assets for a single artist.
stories, which included a list of 830 artists whose original recordings may have been destroyed in the 2008 blaze, including
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