Copyright dispute begins over Bob Marley's songs in London

The hearing has begun in the copyright dispute over 13 songs by Bob Marley including the hit 'No Woman, No Cry'.

The publisher Cayman Music is attempting to retrieve the rights to the songs as they claim that they were not included when it sold some of its rights in 1992 to Blue Mountain Music, as the late Jamaican reggae icon had penned them under other people's names, the BBC reported.

However, Blue Mountain claims that they were covered under the transfer deal which took place in 1992, 11 years after the music star died of cancer.

The songs under dispute are Crazy Baldhead, Johnny Was, Natty Dread, Positive Vibration, Rat Race, Rebel Music (Road Block), Talking Blues, Them Belly Full, Want More, War, Who The Cap Fit and So Jah Seh.