RE:Music / Publishing - Advertising

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

I thought Pete had retained fairly close control of Who songs.  I know there 
was a bill rider that passed a while back in the US that made songs "works 
for hire" that songwriters now have to watch out for in record deals, but 
during most of the time Pete was writing for The Who, I though he retained 
the copyright for the songs and the record companies (e.g. MCA) retained the 
rights to the recordings they issued.  Otherwise, Pete wouldn't be the one 
to advertise and sell the songs for movie soundtracks.  Does that sound 
right?

Or does Pete only own the rights to some of the songs, and this is why the 
same ones appear over and over in different movies/


keets


>FYI - the owners of a song's copyright are not necessarilly the composers. 
>If the write has doen a publishing deal with a publishing house then it 
>them, the publishers who now own the copyright in the song and not the 
>composer.

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