Billy Preston's estate and friends are suing to halt the release of his new documentary

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Nothing from nothing leaves… a legal battle?

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Wasn’t a similar issue around the Queen documentary(ies)? In that they pushed the director’s views/agenda over the actual goings on?

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This case is liable to go around in circles.

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Bill Preston?

I must have missed that part of the movie

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I’m not a lawyer, but fraudulent inducement is a thing, but hard to prove if the only written record is the signed document. So, maybe? Dunno.

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Same thing happened to Alanis Moresette recently. Very little you can do other than try to tell your side of it in the press. https://slate.com/culture/2021/09/jagged-alanis-morissette-documentary-toronto-sexual-assault-controversy.html

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