{"id":28535,"date":"2021-01-03T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=28535"},"modified":"2021-01-03T18:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T18:56:55","slug":"bob-dylan-sells-songs-to-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/bob-dylan-sells-songs-to-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"<Bob Dylan sells songs to Universal>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Music purchased the entire songwriting catalog of Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The biggest acquisition ever of a single act\u2019s publishing rights has just happened, as\u00a0the Universal Music Publishing Group announced that it had signed a landmark deal to purchase Dylan\u2019s entire songwriting catalog after fifty-eight years of singing, more than 600 songs and one\u00a0Nobel Prize\u00a0later \u2014 including world-changing classics like \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind,\u201d \u201cThe Times They Are A-Changin\u2019\u201d and \u201cLike a Rolling Stone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/07\/arts\/music\/bob-dylan-universal-music.html\">according to\u00a0<\/a><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Ben Sisario\u00a0reporting from The New York Times,\u00a0<\/span>which covers Dylan\u2019s entire career, from his earliest tunes to his latest album,\u00a0\u201cRough and Rowdy Ways,\u201d\u00a0was struck directly with Dylan, aged 79, who has long controlled the vast majority of his own songwriting copyrights.\u00a0The deal is the latest and most high-profile in this year\u2019s buzzing market for music catalogs, as artists both young and old have sold their songs, while publishers and investors have raised billions of dollars from both public and private sources to persuade writers to part with their creations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that the art of songwriting is the fundamental key to all great music, nor is it a secret that Bob is one of the very greatest practitioners of that art,\u201d Lucian Grainge, the chief executive of the Universal Music Group, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>vJody Gerson, the chief executive of Universal\u2019s publishing division, said, \u201cTo represent the body of work of one of the greatest songwriters of all time \u2014 whose cultural importance can\u2019t be overstated \u2014 is both a privilege and a responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sisario writes that Bov Dylan is the kind of writer whose work music publishers tend to salivate over. Not only has it stood the test of time, but most of his songs were written by Dylan alone and have been frequently covered by other artists \u2014 with each use generating royalties. According to Universal, Dylan\u2019s songs have been recorded more than 6,000 times.\u00a0The Universal deal also includes Dylan\u2019s shares in a number of songs he has written with other songwriters. But of the more than 600 titles included in the deal, there are a handful by members of the Band, which Dylan was long associated with \u2014 including Robbie Robertson\u2019s song \u201cThe Weight\u201d \u2014 that Dylan owns the copyright to but did not compose. But the agreement does not include any of Dylan\u2019s unreleased songs. It also doesn\u2019t cover any work Dylan writes in the future, leaving open the possibility that he could choose to work with another publisher for that material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Music purchased the entire songwriting catalog of Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[4330,4332,99,1385,4333,4331],"class_list":["post-28535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bob-dylan","tag-catalog","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-publishing-rights","tag-universal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28539,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535\/revisions\/28539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}