“I was sued for sounding like myself”
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7 min readDec 1, 2015
A Glimpse Inside the Wild World of Music Publishing
Back in 1984, Michael Jackson had an idea. An awful idea. Michael Jackson had a wonderful, awful idea.
The idea: Drop $47.5 million (adjusted for inflation = $108.7 million) to acquire the rights to nearly all of the Beatles songs penned by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.