Bob Dylan sells his entire catalog of recorded music to Sony
NEW YORK | American artist Bob Dylan sold his entire catalog of recorded music to Sony last July, the music industry giant announced on Monday.
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This agreement also covers the “rights of future new releases” of songs, according to a press release which does not specify the amount of the contract.
Bob Dylan, 80 years old and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, had already sold his copyrights – separate from the recording rights – to Universal at the end of 2020 for an amount estimated at the time at $ 300 million.
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