Like a rolling stone...

[Jolly]

https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-bob-dylan-catalog-universal-music-publishing-20201207-ytupfiw5incujacm3yhtesfdji-story.html

[George K]

Oh, good. Now we'll be hearing Dylan songs in car rental ads.

Of course, at this age, he probably doesn't GAF. I wouldn't.

[taiwan_girl]

Wonder why he did that?

Does he need the money?
Was he concern about relatives fighting over the songs after he past?

[Mik]

I suspect he had something he wanted to do with the money after he is gone and was pretty sure it would get sold later anyway. It's a trend. Stevie Nicks just sold hers for $100M.

[Mik]

But thinking about it? It's probably the best way to be sure your music lives on. You could lock it down upon death I'd imagine, but what good would that do long term?

[George K]

@Mik said in Like a rolling stone...:

You could lock it down upon death I'd imagine, but what good would that do long term?

Listening to some of Prof. Robert Greenberg's lectures, he comments the the estate of Bela Bartok has held onto copyrights and will not let just anyone play his music. He wanted to include Bartok's music in his lectures, but was unable to because the estate said "no."

[Axtremus]

@Mik said in Like a rolling stone...:

It's probably the best way to be sure your music lives on.

There is the public domain for that.
He wanted the money for some reason.
Nothing wrong with that, of course.
Maybe it's just easier to split the money than to divide song rights as inheritance.

[Loki]

Remember this music means has meaning to less and less people everyday.

My kids may like a Dylan tune but it doesn’t resonate like it did with us, it doesn’t invoke a flood of memories relating to coming of age, war, believing you will live forever, not giving AF, your first girlfriend, etc.

[Mik]

Since all the buzz today is about Bob Dylan selling his catalog, I offer up this to get us back to thinking about his undeniable artistry - a critique of Bob's Christmas lights at his Malibu home by his neighbor (formerly a Letterman writer)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/59wp5k/a-critical-analysis-of-bob-dylans-2017-xmas-lights

[Klaus]

Looks like the article is about copyright issues.

Ironically, what I get is this: