Doing fine. Gray and cold in WA. Just landed back in Kansas. No gray; just cold. Hope you are well. I am pretty sure that I first saw i Wanna Hold Your Hand on the CBS Late Movie way back when. Fun flick.
I would surmise that the publisher gets the bulk of the money, and the writers/artists get the rest. A cover royalty would probably go to the publisher and the writer/s. The big money in music goes to whomever owns the publishing rights. On a side note, Paul McCartney's publishing catalogue is vast and extremely varied. Worth looking into.
I'll never forget when I saw the MPL logo at the bottom of sheet music from the musical "Annie"... From "Serial Mom" to "Deadpool 2", Paul gets a check!
Not a feature film, but for their latest TV commercial, airbnb are using "Yellow Submarine" by The Beatles. Must have paid top dollar to license that, methinks...
He also owns the Wisconsin Fight Song ("On Wisconsin",) Buddy Holly's catalogue and numerous other songs you wouldn't normally associate with him.
Don Draper listens to 'Tomorrow Never Knows' - or part of it, anyway - in a fifth season Mad Men episode called 'Lady Lazarus'. The studio apparently paid $250,000 for the right to use the song in the episode.
I thought it was House Calls it was featured in. You could only he hear it on commercial-free TV (i.e. HBO, TCM) or on network TV.
One episode of "Doctor Who" contains a Beatles song, from an otherwise-lost UK TV performance, if I recall correctly... - Kevin
To license a Beatles master (recorded by The Beatles): 1) License the publishing 2) License the master recording There are no mechanical licenses, so you need to negotiate with the owners of both of the above. Either entity can ask whatever they want, or even refuse entirely. I am not sure what the modern licensing arrangement for the master recordings is--whether that's a joint agreement with Universal and Apple, and who sets the price. The publishing for most of the Beatles catalog was owned outright by Sony/ATV, although McCartney sued for reversion and reached a private settlement that reverts his rights (for music > 56 years old) year-by-year. Lennon's rights were many-year-leased (to 2050) to Sony/ATV a number of years ago. If you want to just use a COVER version of a Beatles song, then you only need to negotiate with Sony/ATV (for the catalog that they control) or Sony/ATV+McCartney (for the songs that McCartney has obtained reversion on). Harrison's songs are covered under separate license controlled by the Harrison estate, currently under license through BMG. The fact that the Harrison songs are controlled by a different entity means that if you are looking to license a bunch of songs, it's often easier to just exclude Harrison titles. For a movie that uses a bunch of Beatles songs, you'd negotiate a package deal.
There's a Doctor Who episode from 1965, I think, where the main characters get their space - time visualiser out and watch The Beatles. I think the footage is from Top Of The Pops. It's on the VHS of the episode but I think it got replaced when the DVD came out. Rights and all that. Can't remember which song it was.
