Re: Aging rockers set to lose copyrights

["Steve Thomson" <zeppelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't understand all the technicalities either. In the Q magazine 20th
anniversary issue, McCartney mentioned something about part ownership of
some of the Beatles catalog reverting back to him in about 10 years. He
did say it kinda hurts having to pay someone else every time he plays
"Hey Jude" in concert!

> >From what I've read, songwriters retain rights during
> their lifetimes + 50 or 90 years.  This copyright feud
> is about recordings, not the songs.  
> BUT, seems to me that if, say, McCartney, Jagger or
> Page doesn't want a song they wrote to be used behind
> a commercial, how can a company use it just because
> the copyright on the recording is gone?  The song is
> still under copyright.
> Don't understand that at all.
> BB
> Teleri