Paul McCartney to regain Beatles back catalogue?

The publishing rights to the majority of McCartney's Beatles songs will be eligible to be 'recaptured' in 2018Time heals all wounds – and in just nine years, it may even return Paul McCartney's publishing rights. According to a clause of the US Copyright Act, many of McCartney's Beatles songs will be eligible to be "recaptured" in 2018, decades after they were sold to ATV Music and then Michael Jackson.Though it does not apply in the UK, the United States' 1976 Copyright Act gives songwri...

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