Patrick Stewart is No. 2; Paul McCartney decides to sue
’ most famous songs, including “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “All You Need Is Love.”
The suit is over copyright termination: the right of creators, under the 1976 copyright act, to reclaim ownership of their works from publishers after a specific length of time has passed.
lost a copyright suit in Britain, executives at Sony/ATV began to suggest that the rule might not apply to McCartney’s songs.
[...] in the Duran Duran case, a judge ruled that the band’s original contract was governed by British law, which barred it from reclaiming rights in the United States.
Actor Patrick Stewart has played such widely known roles as Macbeth, Scrooge and Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, but soon he will take on a role that tops them all: the poop emoji.
Entertainment Weekly reported that Stewart will voice that emoji in Sony Pictures Animation’s “The Emoji Movie.”
The San Francisco Travel Association says the city just had its seventh consecutive year of record-breaking tourism.
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