Hadn't heard about that Cassidy deal, Michael! It's the first one I've heard of that encompasses the artist's "publishing catalog, sound recordings, and name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights"! All the big names who are selling off (that I'm aware of) are strictly songwriters/composers who are "merely" selling their publishing rights/catalogs: Springsteen, Dylan, Simon (?)....going by memory here.
All of them are prolific songwriters, so their collective potential rights-values are astronomical! In fact, I can't recall any of those high-profile deals being for anyone no longer living. Previous deals were all (I think) for publishing rights by the still-living legends....to set up their children's children's children's children for life!
With all that said, I wonder how aggressive Iconoclast will be in selling his name and likeness, and how they'll propose to use his songs. Of course, in his Partridge days, he didn't write his hits. He may have gotten one song on each of those albums, but he didn't start writing in earnest 'til '75 and his first post-Partridge album for RCA. I'll do some nosing around to see what I can find! Thanks, Michael!
Hadn't heard about that Cassidy deal, Michael! It's the first one I've heard of that encompasses the artist's "publishing catalog, sound recordings, and name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights"! All the big names who are selling off (that I'm aware of) are strictly songwriters/composers who are "merely" selling their publishing rights/catalogs: Springsteen, Dylan, Simon (?)....going by memory here.
All of them are prolific songwriters, so their collective potential rights-values are astronomical! In fact, I can't recall any of those high-profile deals being for anyone no longer living. Previous deals were all (I think) for publishing rights by the still-living legends....to set up their children's children's children's children for life!
With all that said, I wonder how aggressive Iconoclast will be in selling his name and likeness, and how they'll propose to use his songs. Of course, in his Partridge days, he didn't write his hits. He may have gotten one song on each of those albums, but he didn't start writing in earnest 'til '75 and his first post-Partridge album for RCA. I'll do some nosing around to see what I can find! Thanks, Michael!
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