Doesn’t she have to pay royalties? Paul McCartney has to but each year more fall out of copyright.
Only if she doesn't own the rights to the song. There's no such thing as a royalty paid to the first person to record a song.
She doesn’t own the first 6 albums but the sunset clause kicked in and she re-recorded them. Other artists get screwed all the time.
In 2009, Sony cut a deal with Yoko Ono to retain ownership of John Lennon’s authorship rights until 2050.
In 2017, Paul McCartney entered into negotiations with Sony to “reclaim” his authorship rights. The thing is, there is a little loophole in US copyright law that allows the authors of songs (or any other copyrighted work, for that matter) that were published before 1978 to regain control of their works after 56 years.
This means that starting in 2018, Paul McCartney was able to start reclaiming his ownership over the songs he wrote while with the Beatles in 1962.
Every year until 2026, in theory, McCartney would have been able to reclaim more and more songs until regaining control over the whole collection of the Beatles songs he authored.
https://musicnerdshq.com/do-the-beatles-still-get-royalties/
https://musicnerdshq.com/do-the-beatles-still-get-royalties/
From what I understood whoever had bought the master recordings from those albums, not the publishing. So they only profit from the sales of the records that used those recordings. I do not believe they own the songs, only those recording that were used on the old albums that have since been re-recorded and re-released
Not sure, I know “blurred lines” used the same tone as Marvin Gaye and his family got millions plus 50% of future royalties.
Prepare derivative works based on the original work. For example, a new original product that includes aspects of an existing song. This consists of a cover song, remix, or any altered version of an existing song.
Seems from this should have to pay royalties on certain aspects. If she owns the lyrics she only had to pay for the music etc.
I’m not a jew so the page is confusing as hell.
Who would she pay those royalties to?
These are her songs and her albums that she re-recorded.
I do believe that she still owns the publishing which means that she owns those songs
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