{"id":6396,"date":"2017-01-19T06:36:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T06:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/01\/19\/paul-mccartney-wants-the-beatles-rights-back-from-sony\/"},"modified":"2017-01-19T06:36:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T06:36:54","slug":"paul-mccartney-wants-the-beatles-rights-back-from-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2017\/01\/19\/paul-mccartney-wants-the-beatles-rights-back-from-sony\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney Wants The Beatles Rights Back from Sony!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/df\/Paul_McCartney_black_and_white_2010.jpg\/220px-Paul_McCartney_black_and_white_2010.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>According to McCartney&#8217;s complaint, he transferred rights to songs co-authored by him and John Lennon between 1962 and 1971 to various music publishers.  <!--more-->  It&#8217;s well known that in the 1980s, after getting advice from McCartney himself that the big money in music was tied to rights in song compositions, Michael Jackson bought songs including &#8220;Yesterday,&#8221; &#8220;Hey Jude&#8221; and &#8220;Let It Be.&#8221; Jackson then entered a joint venture with Sony\/ATV, and last year, his estate sold the late pop singer&#8217;s remaining interest to Sony.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit notes that McCartney has been serving and recording termination notices for nearly a decade. Represented by attorneys at Morrison &amp; Foerster, he now expects to recover copyright interests as soon as October 5, 2018. &#8220;For years following service of the first Termination Notices, Defendants gave no indication to Paul McCartney that they contested the efficacy of Paul McCartney\u2019s Termination Notices,&#8221; states the complaint. &#8220;Defendants\u2019 affiliates did, however, oppose at least one other artist\u2019s terminations of transfers under the terms of the 1976 Copyright Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Article source: Billboard<br \/>Image source: Flickr.com (Author: Oli Gill)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to McCartney&#8217;s complaint, he transferred rights to songs co-authored by him and John Lennon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}