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Paul McCartney Seeks to Reclaim Rights to Beatles Songs Under the Copyright Act

By Michael Keough on January 19, 2017

Sir Paul McCartney aims to reclaim his rights to popular Beatles songs in a complaint filed yesterday. The complaint seeks a declaratory judgment that his copyright termination notices are valid ahead of the 2018 expiration of the Copyright Act’s term for pre-1978 copyrights – 56 years after McCartney and John Lennon began composing together in…

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