The great Paul McCartney has begun the process of regaining control of his share of the US publishing rights in the Beatles’ catalogue. The publishing is currently owned by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, but US law allows living artists to apply to take back the right 56 years after initial publication, meaning the Lennon-McCartney catalogue becomes available in 2018.
The rights to integrity and credit are moral rights in music.
In music copyright discussions, the focus is usually on economic rights—who can distribute, copy, or profit from a song. However, another facet of copyright law
