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PAUL ANKA - ANKA PROMISED 50 PER CENT OF THIS IS IT ROYALTIES
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ANKA PROMISED 50 PER CENT OF THIS IS IT ROYALTIES
Legendary singer/songwriter PAUL ANKA will reap half the profits from MICHAEL JACKSON's first posthumous single THIS IS IT - after the King of Pop's estate conceded he co-wrote the track.
Anka spoke out against Sony's decision to use the song, which he co-wrote with Jackson back in 1983, following the track's midnight release on Monday (12Oct09).
This Is It is a rehash of Anka's song I Never Heard, and the late star's administrators quickly confirmed it is part owned by Anka.
A rep for the estate said, "We acknowledge that Michael and Paul wrote this song together."
According to the New York Daily News, Jackson's administrators approached Anka's lawyers to offer him 50 per cent of the single's revenue after he threatened the estate with legal action.
13 October 2009 16:11
Tags: Paul Anka - Michael Jackson
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Kim -
I am glad you are so up-to-date on this subject and I hope that the
administrators of MJ's estate notice your comment. Why shouldn't his estate
receive retroactive royalties on Anka's previous release? It breaks my heart
that he's gone and still THE GREED JUST DOESN'T STOP. I am ashamed to say I've
enjoyed Paul Anka's music . . . I hope someone who knows him reads this because
I just threw his records in the trash.
I wouldn't give him a dime of the procedes. He is already getting money from
his version of the song that he did in 1991 that singer Safire sang. So Michael
should have all the rights to his version that he did. You didn't see Michael
sue Anka over the Anka's version of the song which he so deserves from Anka's
version in 1991 so he should have let it be the way it was.
He had to have known that Michael would use the song he did help create the
song and had every right to use it seeings Anka used a version of it in 1991.
It's not fair that he pulls this s**t after Michael is gone and can't fight
about the fact that Anka already gets Royalties from his own version of the
song. Why should he get double Royalties? If that is the case then where are
Michael's Royalties from the version of the song that Anka released back in
1991? It is only fair that Michael gets Royalties from him on that song as
well.


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