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Lifted from another site:
I've been following the progress of the reversion of the US songwiting publishing for Paul McCartney's songs to MPL since 2019. As of now, all of his compositions published through 1967 have been returned to MPL, as well as several from early 1968, namely Flying, Lady Madonna, Step Inside Love, and, just this week, Blackbird. Now Blackbird was not supposed to revert to MPL until this coming December (all of his White Album songs are supposed to return in the late November/early December timeframe). So I suspect there was some kind of deal for Blackbird's return to allow Beyoncé to not only record her version of the song, but to use Paul's guitar work and foot tapping from the Beatles' original. I note that a lot of Beyoncé's songs were published by Sony/ATV Tunes according to ASCAP. Not only that, the ASCAP listing for Blackbird now also includes the alternate spelling of Blackbiird which Beyoncé's version is called. I would love to know the whole story, but it appears two very powerful people can exert a lot of influence over a corporate giant to get what they want! Paul, rather than Sony/ATV, will now make a ton of songwriting royalties from Beyoncé's version!
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@beatles4ever-1 Yes, but do something different. Give that song a whole new life in arrangement(s) and sound. Not a repeat.
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@oobu24 Blackbird is listed on Paul's MPL website.
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@jimmix Her version, while very lovely with the backup singers, is too adorned. There was a reason Paul/The Beatles/George Martin did not adorn it. The subject matter and the message are all the song needs.....not being overly pretty. IMO
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I'm looking at all of the credits of the Lennon/McCartney songs on the MPL website.
Even "Ticket to Ride" (a John song) is credited as McCartney, Lennon.
But hey, they're best friends. Or Best Mates.
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The count of Len-Mac ownership should be at 127 not counting the duplicates.
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The US songwiting publishing for the following songs have reverted to MPL:
ALL TOGETHER NOW
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@btlfan said in
LENONO MUSIC / MPL MUSIC :
The US songwiting publishing for the following songs have reverted to MPL:
ALL TOGETHER NOW
HEY BULLDOG1, 2, 3, 4, Paul is going to make a lot more.....
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Paul loves you! -
The US songwiting publishing for the following song has reverted to MPL:
THINGUMYBOB (Given to John Foster & Son Black Dyke Mills Band)
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The US songwiting publishing for the following song has reverted to MPL:
HEY JUDE
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@jimmix lol he'd better love and appreciate us...we put him where he is when he was a Beatle
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@btlfan That's great that most all of the McCartney & Lennon song rights are now back with Paul at MPL... and no doubt somehow split with the John Lennon estate. He's had to deal with this for such a long time, that he hasn't been able to completely own his own songs. Wonder how long it will be till all the Beatle songs revert back to him?
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@ladyleslie said in
LENONO MUSIC / MPL MUSIC :
@btlfan That's great that most all of the McCartney & Lennon song rights are now back with Paul at MPL... and no doubt somehow split with the John Lennon estate. He's had to deal with this for such a long time, that he hasn't been able to completely own his own songs. Wonder how long it will be till all the Beatle songs revert back to him?
2 more years - it’s 56 years, so 1970 + 56 = 2026.
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@ladyleslie All of the US publishing for songs Paul wrote or co-wrote that were released before the Beatles broke up will revert by 2026, except Suzy Parker, which will revert in 2027. A handful of songs Paul wrote for RAM and his Oh Woman, Oh Why will also revert in 2027. However, the Beatles have continued to release songs Paul had a hand in writing (like those from the Beatles' Love, Peter Jackson's Get Back, incidental songs from Magical Mystery Tour, Christmas greeting songs, and some from the Antholgies), and these are still published in the US by Sony/ATV. Presumably, these will revert to MPL 28 years (or 35 years, depending on the publication date) after they were commercially availble.