the delta goodrem unreleased tapes dispute involves unreleased material recorded by australian singer-songwriter delta goodrem in  and  goodrem recorded thirteen tracks for an album given the working title delta while signed to an artist development deal with the small independent label empire records in  after goodrem had achieved mainstream success empires owners attempted to shop the recordings to other labels though goodrem objected the dispute led to a lawsuit which was settled in mediation to the effect that the recordings would remain unreleased