Take the money and run (to the bank)

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I must admit that 550 million is quite a hunk of change for Bruce Springsteen's song rights. I'm sure Sony will be licensing his songs to anyone willing to pay from now on. 

He's definitely not dancing the E Street Shuffle anymore 

Stand for the really lame commercials using "his" tunes

They got the masters too, no? 

Easy 3 billion when he dies.

how much was the jackson catalog?

A bit more detail on why plenty of artists are unloading their masters and licensing.

. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/arts/music/bruce-springsteen-catalog.html

Aside from the obvious invitation to plagiarism suits over who wrote what, I'd imagine on the world wide scale the Page Plant material they strong armed back into their control would crush the Boss in $$$. Bowie too. .... as McCartney chuckles in the background 

I Expect Trump will be using Born in The USA