McCartney is going to get his music back! (for Mackwood)

[Flint]

I am lobbing this out to Jeff Mackwood for another lecture on the faults of Copyright law... Take it away, Jeff (see video below).

Paul McCartney is going through the process of acquiring the rights to his own Beatles music. I said acquiring instead of re-acquiring because he never actually owned his own work. Back in the day things were done differently.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/03/p ... s-catalog/



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9s950VfMxA[/youtube]

 

[Deleted member 133]

There's not much to find fault with in this case. While I, in general, have problems with having a law giving one party to a perfectly good contract which both parties entered into in good faith (McCartney's songs were never taken from him; he simply signed a publishing deal that he later regretted) an opportunity to effectively nullify it, it's not the only such case in law in general, nor contract law in particular.

My main issue with US copyright law is the "Disney" amendments - which I have described in the past - and corporations' failure to recognize the societal "deal" that is at the heart of all laws pertaining to intellectual property rights - again which I have described in the past. Neither of these issues are directly in play here.

Of course Sir Paul has complained not only about Jackson having usurped control of Beatles songs, but also the McCartney-Lennon co-authorship of the vast majority of Beatles songs - when it eventually became to his advantage to do so. One might point out to him that, perhaps, without the original publishing deal, and without the partnership with Lennon, he just might not have amounted to as much as he eventually did.

Perhaps the thread's title would be more appropriately "McCartney is going to get his share of his music back!" given the Lennon share.

Jeff