Paul McCartney in concert (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
Paul McCartney is taking Sony/ATV to court in a bid to finally regain the rights to The Beatles‘ lucrative back catalogue which he famously lost to Michael Jackson in 1985.
“Paul McCartney has today filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York against Sony/ATV to confirm his ownership in his US reversionary copyrights, which are granted to him by US copyright law, in the songs he wrote with John Lennon and recorded with The Beatles,” a spokesperson has told Pitchfork.
“The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and bears the case no. 17cv363.”
TMZ is reporting that these issues have come to the boil as McCartney expects to reacquire the rights in 2018 but has so far been unable to receive confirmation of this from Sony.