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/