Hey guys im a music manager so i know all about these kind of things..
Mj and sony own the publishing rights which is that if people want to use the beatles songs in adverts, games or sell online.. they need to have a contract with both signatures of who are the publishers which is MJ & Sony ATV, that contract would have had to be signed recently as you only have a certain time to get it back to the companies.. This also means that the catalogue is very much still MJ's but "Someone" signed the agreement with itunes to allow the music to be distributed online.. they still need both publishers permission if people want to use there songs in other projects.. MJ would have gotten a lump sum and everytime the tracks are sold online or played on the radio MJ also gets a cut of the sale price for every track played or sold so he is raking it n bigtime..
the estate could have signed the agreement if Mj is n fact gone but i doubt he would have given that authority as he never sold the full rights when he was n finanical difficulty.. Also remember that MJ owns the rights to pretty much every artist that is signed to sony and is getting well paid every couple of months from what he owns... MJ is losing out on nothing here, he is gaining alot...
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