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That’s totally it. And the whole line about her collecting her favorite songs from those two solo records probably isn’t true, either. Likely, the song list has been cobbled together with songs that haven’t been sold off to. Otherwise, she’d have certainly included the two hits, plus “You Are,” and “Smile.”
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If she could turn the page in time and rearrange a day or two, an album like this would have come out BEFORE she sold her catalog. Then the fans would get all those gems that are missing from this collection.
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^ Oh wow, that does make sense Re: the rights. So… does that mean that Stevie, for example, could not release another best-of that includes her most famous hits, because she sold off the rights?
But one other question, I thought these deals were for the writers’ entire catalogs?
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IIRC the others all sold 100%. Publishers rights are different to songwriter royalties... the writer still gets paid royalties anytime the song is used by anyone. And either Warner's or the band (Warners I think??) owns the rights to the actual recordings (the masters) made by the band and thus how those can be used, repackaged, remastered, resold, etc. Maybe Michelle or someone else with better legal knowledge can clarify publishing rights vs owning the masters/rights to the original recordings. My understanding is publishing rights covers how a song can be used (ie re recorded) for commercial use or by another artist etc. Not the rights to the already recorded versions by the band. Warners/FM (not sure who nowadays) owns those. I welcome more info.....
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Artists / Writers still have access to their own songs when they sell the rights. What they lose is future royalty earnings and refusal rights. Every time the song is played on the radio, used in a movie, a commercial - those fees and royalties go to the new rights holder. Refusal - An example - a politician wants to use Don't Stop in a campaign ad, the artist / writer can't stop it. Same thing if Don't Stop is used in a porn film.
FYI - Lindsey did sell 100% of his publishing and writers rights to his catalog and 50% of his unreleased catalog. However, he kept 100% of his artist and producer rights and royalties. Not a bad deal for $90 million. |
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My guess is the Meantime songs are still 100% Christine's, so she gets maximum return there. Songbird was probably a concession to need to have Christine signature song on the album, but they wanted to stay away from the big hits that get big download / stream numbers still in their original versions, such as Don't Stop, Everywhere and Little Lies.
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He also continues to own his 'Artist' royalties, so that would be a payment anytime the original recording (master) is used/played?
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But then why release this album at all?
Seems unlikely that she has been under some sort of contract in the past decade. So let me one-up Tony: the whole thing is a Producers-like loss-making tax scheme! This theory is only strengthened when you listen to the new "arrangement" of Songbird.
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