Putting out demos and unfinished materials will only destroy her legacy. I mean why would anyone be interested to listen to those, minus the fans. Why not just end things at a good note. It's better to keep her legacy alive by burning these demos. Plus, the quality of the materials is questionable. It's better to preserve a good name for her and keep pushing her catalogues to the younger generation.
I honestly don't like this. Demos, stems, and in-progress work are an intimate look into an artist's creative process and mind; I don't understand why artists and the industry don't celebrate this work, even in death. That's time and work that she put into something that will never be restored or retrieved. Yes, it's problematic to capitalize on death - it's grim like the article says and feels wrong. But why not do something different? Use platforms like Apple Connect to put the material out there in raw form. Say "this is what Amy was like, what she was working on, and what you don't see in the product itself." Do that for living artists, too. Make music consumers a part of the creative process, a part of reflection and mourning, part of the artist.
IDK. I wouldn't have necessarily supported an album being made out of these things because profiting off of someone's death with material they deemed not ready for release can be pretty wrong, but for some reason deleting all that material makes me really uneasy.
IA, but @ the shameless promotion.
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Originally posted by StonedSoulPicnic
Not every artist feel the same way as you do about demos. Not every artist wants to pull a PJ Harvey. We don't know if Amy would've liked for her demos to be released, so I don't see why they should be released.
Then it should be her family's decision or whomever was closest to her. At the end of the day, this seems extremely drastic. He's basically throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Tbh, somehow I just don't fully believe that he would delete them. He probably has them saved on his own private hard drive somewhere. I don't believe any label exec would be stupid enough to get rid of an entire legacy like that, but just the notion of it disturbs me.
They don't have to release it, but to destroy every demo seems a bit drastic It's still music she worked on. They could keep the demos without releasing them.
It'd be cool at least for her fans, I'd also check it out but it would be only her decision if the world should or should not hear her unfinished work. I didn't know her so who knows what she would want the CEO to do.
Unheard tapes of the late singer - who died from alcohol poisoning aged 27 in 2011 - were discovered by 'Amy' director Asif Kapdia, producer James Gay-Rees and editor Chris King during their two years researching for the documentary.
Now the movie makers are campaigning for the 'Rehab' singer's label, Universal, to release an album featuring the tracks they weren't able to squeeze in to the biopic, including an ''emotive'' one about her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil.
Chris said: ''I would recommend they find a way to release some of the stuff we listened to. There's one recording where she's getting back with Blake Fielder-Civil
''It's just piano and her singing, which is such a massive emotive performance. There are songs like that and cover versions we couldn't work into the film that I'd love everybody to hear.''
Assumedly some of the ones that were not destroyed as this was posted after the OPs article.
@ the shameless promotion. 
It's still music she worked on. They could keep the demos without releasing them.