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Northern Songs Ltd was a limited company founded in 1963, by music publisher Dick James, artist manager Brian Epstein, and songwriters John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles, to publish songs written by Lennon and McCartney.
The Beatles was the band's first album under Apple Records.. Apple Corps Ltd was conceived by the Beatles in 1967 after the death of their manager Brian Epstein.It was intended to be a small group of companies (Apple Retail, Apple Publishing, Apple Electronics, and so on) as part of Epstein's plan to create a tax-effective business structure. [1]
Calderstone Productions is the London-based subsidiary of Universal Music Group that administers the Beatles' recorded music output that was originally owned by EMI.These works were released on EMI's Parlophone label in the United Kingdom and by Capitol Records in the United States, from 1962 to 1968; and then by the Beatles' own EMI-distributed Apple Records label from 1968 to 1970.
In January 2017, McCartney filed a suit in United States district court against Sony/ATV Music Publishing seeking to reclaim ownership of his share of the Lennon–McCartney song catalogue beginning in 2018. Under US copyright law, for works published before 1978 the author can reclaim copyrights assigned to a publisher after 56 years.
Ownership and control of the company remains with McCartney, Starr and the estates of Lennon and Harrison. Apple Corps has had a long history of trademark disputes with Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.). The dispute was finally resolved in 2007, with Apple Corps transferring ownership of the "Apple" name and all associated trademarks to Apple Inc ...
"Lucinda Williams Sings the Beatles From Abbey Road" arrives Dec. 6 as the seventh volume of the "Lu's Jukebox" series, a collection of albums where Williams covers other artists' work.
[100] In March 1969, having become wary of the disharmony within the band and the problems affecting their Apple Corps business empire, [101] James sold his majority shareholding in Northern Songs to Lew Grade's ATV Music, [102] thereby selling on the ownership of the Beatles catalogue. [103] [104] [nb 8]
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.They are widely regarded as the most influential band in Western popular music and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form.