Paul McCartney, Denied Control Over Beatles Hits For Decades, Is Told To Wait
McCartney has long sought control of The Beatles hits he co-authored and has filed a court case against the company that controls them.
After missing two chances to control the compositions he co-authored while in The Beatles — once in 1969 when he and John Lennon were outbid and again to Michael Jackson, in a duplicitous move by the King of Pop, in the '80s — Paul McCartney is not taking any chances.
First, the fine print. In the U.S., authors are keen, after the previously mentioned burns he sustained, to regain control of his Beatles work — so much so that he filed termination notices, the legal mechanism for him to regain his copyrights, on The Beatles' "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," about 10 years ahead of schedule. (They turn 56 years old in October, 2018.)
