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Originally Posted by leaferguy
Oh noes she broke six figures get the brooms out.
Huntster is the glass ceiling
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Hunt is right. For a hell of a lot less than $100,000 they should have owned the song out right. It's not like it has any commercial value outside of it's context.
That's really the big mistake CBC made back in 1968, bothering to renew the contract and continue royalties. They hired her to make the song for them, they should have declared it work-made-for-hire, and told her it's now theirs. If they did that up front, it would be theirs and the courts would back them up. By continuing to pay royalties, they have declared it NOT theirs, and forfeited any claim to it.