The family of reggae legend Bob Marley is refusing to license his music for a biopic that his widow, Rita Marley, is executive producing.

The biopic, produced by American studio the Weinstein Company, is competing with a documentary being produced by the Marley family's Tuff Gong Pictures, according to trade paper the Hollywood Reporter.

The documentary, with the musician's son Ziggy Marley as executive producer, will be directed by Martin Scorsese.

"The Weinstein project has put the documentary into jeopardy," said Chris Blackwell of Blue Mountain Music, Marley's music publisher.

Family members say they were unaware that the biopic would be launched so soon — in late 2009 — thus interfering with the documentary's projected release of February 2010.

"We believe [the documentary] is the best way to represent our father's life from his perspective," said Ziggy Marley.

Blackwell told the Reporter that he's in talks with Weinstein Company to postpone its biopic.

"We … are in discussions to look at ways to mutually benefit both projects," said Matthew Frankel of the Weinstein Company.

Marley, whose hits include No Woman, No Cry and I Shot the Sheriff, died of cancer in 1981 at age 36.