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smugma on July 28, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tom Lehrer has died

Songs are never owned by labels, only recordings.

The songs aka compositions/lyrics may be controlled by publishers

weinzierl on July 28, 2025 [–]

This is only true for pure administration deals which are extremely rare. The usual co-publishing deals, as well as full publishing and 360 deals give up some ownership of the songs.

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