More on the issue(s).
In the past couple years I've seem a flock of articles about artists buying back the rights to their songs. Most of the reporting states or at least implies a lot of money was spent to do it. If those musicians are willing to license their songs (I've read some simply refuse) then I imagine their price reflects the price they paid to get their material back 'home.' Here's a recent story about Fogerty and CCR tunes... https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/john-fogerty-says-his-ccr-songs-are-home-where-they-belong-following-50-year-battle-over-rights/ar-AA1aRtnw?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=66c04f37e6b147d9a4d445f7ec850203&ei=231 (orignally from Fox Business)
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