In the early days of Black Sabbath the band was originally called Earth and they were managed by a bloke named Jim Simpson (doh). Simpson owned some of Sabbath’s early demo music and had planned to release it as Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes. There was a legal discussion because the 9 song release wouldn’t pay the member any royalties. According to Sharon Osbourne: “We settled with Jim Simpson and the band now have their demos back,” Sharon told Blabbermouth. “And all four of them [the original members of Black Sabbath] own it, which is where it should be. All of that stuff should be theirs. So it all ended well. So, yeah, they own them. We’re gonna talk about what everybody wants to do with it, and we’ll go from there.”
Story source here: https://consequence.net/2026/04/black-sabbath-early-earth-demos-settlement-ex-manager/
