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tacocat · 3188 days ago · link · · parent · post: Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find their “smoking gun”
So I looked it up and they spent $25 million to buy the publishing house that claimed ownership, so yeah, $2 million dollars wasn't a lot 20 years ago but they spent the $25 million to get that $47 million plus and in 1996 the investment probably hadn't paid for itself. Also, they aren't part of Time Warner anymore, they're independently owned by another company now if anyone cares. I like reading about corporate structure and incest. It's like putting a giant Russian nesting doll back together.
Weird. So Warner Chappell is no longer Warner Brothers? Well, neither is Time Warner Cable so I guess that's normal-ish. And I would argue these mergers and the like are more like a metastasized tumor than a matryoshka doll.