Who Owns The Beatles Songs

King of pop michael jackson with whom mccartney recorded songs like say say say in the early 80s outbid the beatle in 1985 swiping his.

Who owns the beatles songs. Details about who can profit from the vast catalog of songs michael jackson co owned by leslie gornstein jul 02 2009 1 35 pm tags. In march 1963 the beatles debut album please please me was officially released and epstein sought a publisher for the songs written by mccartney john lennon george harrison and ringo. Details about who can profit from the vast catalog of songs michael jackson co owned by leslie gornstein jul 02 2009 1 35 pm tags. I love you.

Who owns the beatles songs now that m j s dead. Sir paul mccartney and sony have a reached a deal in a battle over who owns publishing rights to the beatles songs the hollywood reporter says. It stands to reason that the average beatles fan would assume mccartney owns the songs that he regularly sings in concert and penned back in the 60s but that hasn t been the case for decades. Since 1969 paul mccartney has been fighting to secure the rights to the lennon mccartney beatles catalog.

The musician had gone to a us court seeking to. So for 47 5 million jackson acquired the publishing rights to most of the beatles songs. A decade after the initial deal jackson sold 50 percent of atv to sony for 95 million creating the music publishing company sony atv that today owns rights of not only beatles songs but others. Ironically jackson bought rights to beatles songs after a leisurely chat with mccartney on the importance of music publishing a sore point later for the ex beatle.

Back in 1963 a publishing company was formed called northern songs. Who owns the beatles songs now that m j s dead. Over the weekend the legendary musician won.