Marley’s family withholds music

The Weinstein Co., the studio that bought the movie rights to the autobiography of reggae legend Bob Marley’s wife, may have to make the film without his music.

The family of Bob Marley, which is co-producing a documentary of the singer by Martin Scorsese, said in a statement Monday that it won’t license his music for the Weinstein movie based on Rita Marley’s book, “No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley.”

The Scorsese documentary, co-produced by Steve Bing, is the “best way to represent our father’s life from his perspective and any other film project pertaining to our father will be empty without his music to support it,” Ziggy Marley said in the statement. The family said it has a long-standing policy not to license Bob Marley’s music for any project in which an actor portrays the musician.

The New York-based studio led by brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein is in talks with the Marley family to “look at ways to mutually benefit both projects,” spokesman Matthew Frankel said in an e-mail, without elaborating.