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unusual facts about Publishing rights



Thraxas

Original publisher Orbit Books did not want to publish a ninth book, and Millar's agent could not come to an agreement regarding rights of a future Thraxas title with Baen Books.


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EMI Music Publishing

EMI Music Publishing administers the publishing rights of over 1.3 million songs; controlling the libraries of artists including Jay-Z, Beyonce, deadmau5, Timo Maas, Dragon (band), The Prodigy, Megadeth, The Black Eyed Peas, Bloc Party, My Chemical Romance, Avicii, Cannibal Corpse, The Crystal Method, Quarashi, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, MSTRKRFT, and Sean Paul.

GameTek

GameTek was a trade name for IJE, the owner of electronic publishing rights to Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune.

Granary Music

Granary also controls the publishing rights to all of Mould's compositions, including all of the songs he wrote and performed with Hüsker Dü, which he claimed after the band's own publishing partnership was disbanded in 1988.

Heldref Publications

In January 2010, the Heldref board transferred publishing rights for the foundation’s two remaining publications (World Affairs and Demokratizatsiya) to the independent World Affairs Institute headed by Heldref’s former executive director, James S. Denton.

Jill Bolte Taylor

After Bolte Taylor's representative, transmedia agent and attorney Ellen Stiefler, conducted an auction for worldwide publishing rights to "My Stroke of Insight," Penguin won the book.

Mann Izawa

In recent years Izawa has been mostly known for his legal feuds with Igarashi for publishing rights to produce merchandise of the Lady Georgie! series, a similar situacion that Igarashi is dealing with Kyoko Mizuki; the original creator of the Candy Candy series.

Rak Records

They manage the publishing rights for songs like "You Sexy Thing" by Hot Chocolate, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan Jett, and "Kids In America" recorded by Kim Wilde.

Tork: Prehistoric Punk

However, following Ed Fries' departure from the company, Microsoft dropped the publishing rights to the title (though, retaining the trademark to the Tork character).

Verlag Anton Saurwein

Formerly based in Möckmühl and latterly in Markt Schwaben, Germany outside of Munich, Saurwein acquired the publishing rights and duties for mexicon, one of the premiere academic journals for Mesoamerican research in Europe, from its former publisher Verlag von Flemming.