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Thanks Andy

Since the song was written so long ago (40 years) there's no paper trail in my archive. I've written to the publisher to see what they have. We shall see.

Cheers

Hi there

I represent a charity that inherited the IP of a songwriter when he passed away.

In 1983 he wrote a song which is registered with PRS as 50/50% split with a publisher, and 100% of the mechanicals owned by the publisher. This song has been recorded a couple of times and proper entries ...

Hi Andy

Thanks for your reply, which I've only just seen since I didn't have email notifications turned on.

From what I can establish the record company has the master rights under an exclusive (not in perpetuity) licence, and the composer retained the composition rights. I can see from past ...

Hi there.

I am a trustee of a UK charity which has inherited the IP of a composer who died recently.

The composer wrote a song about 15 years ago, and produced a recording of it which he exclusively licensed to a record company, along with a number of other songs. The record company released the ...