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Jan. 19, 2017, 3:45 PM UTC

McCartney Won’t ‘Let It Be,’ Sues Sony to Get Back Song Rights

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By Bob Van Voris and Edvard Pettersson, Bloomberg News

Do you want to know a secret? A quirk in U.S. copyright law says Paul McCartney may be able to get the rights to one of his songs back as early as next year, with others following. But,Sony Corp.appears to be standing in the way.

The former Beatle who, with John Lennon, wrote songs including “Love Me Do,” is relying on a provision in the law that gave authors who sold their rights before 1978 the option to reclaim them after 56 years -- the maximum length of copyrights before that ...

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