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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
That's technically incorrect. Dwarf Music pays Bob Dylan a royalty for the work's use. For any profit, over and above the royalty rate (if any), the company keeps the profit for it's shareholders - which in this case is also Bob Dylan. (But it doesn't have to be the artist, and often isn't). Inasmuch as Bob Dylan get his money either way, he can choose <how> he wants it paid to him...(Taxes...taxes...taxes...)
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The question was who is the copyright owner, and in this case, since according to the article Dwarf Music gets the money, in means that Dwarf Music owns the copyright.
To start on this point from the beginning: I noticed that all the URLs removal requests come from companies as copyright owners and I commented on the fact that authors aren't the owners (and copyright was introduced to support the authors, bla... bla... bla...). HarryT insisted that authors are still the copyright owners because in the case of music both the songwriters and the performers get copyright. What he seems to miss is the fact that both songwriter copyright and performer copyright can be transferred to companies.