Yameta Co. Ltd.

Publishing and production entity for Yameta brand. Yameta was first a partnership of Chas Chandler and Mike Jeffery, the former later passing his holding to Jeffery after stepping back from management of Jimi Hendrix. Yameta was 90% owned by businessman John Hillman, based in the Bahamas. The company effectively "employed" the management duo and artist. There followed a complex legal battle involving Yameta, dissolved in 1976, compounded by the untimely death of Hendrix and then Jeffery, whose estate held the works. Al Hendrix settled a deal to hold the works for the Hendrix family but, in 2005, Hillman re-assessed his music rights and assigned them to Purple Haze Records. This was then contested by the family/Experience Hendrix. On some Hendrix releases (e.g., Axis: Bold As Love), the company is incorrectly credited as: "Yaneta Co. Ltd." (typo). Please also consider Yameta, Yameta Co., Yameta Music or Yameta Publishing Co. when shown that way on release.