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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
Unfortunately, sometimes music is modified without an input by the artist. An example of this is the music of The Beatles. According to articles in the magazine "The Beatles" (published by I-5 Publishing), The Beatles albums released in the U. S. before "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" were significantly modified from the original U. K. albums released without the approval of The Beatles.
Not only were the albums released with different track configurations in the U. S. but the tracks themselves were modified without the approval of The Beatles. For many people, it was not until the music of The Beatles was released on CD that we in the U. S. got to hear their music the way The Beatles intended.
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I do understand the point you are trying to make but the Beatles agrument is IMHO a bit flawed.
I think that the Beatles signed away the rights to the record company (at least for those records). This gives the record company every right to change the music to "adapt" it for the American market and the Beatles had no say in it because the signed away their rights.
This changed at some point in the sixties where artist no longer signed away their rights an started to control and exploit their rights. Later works of the Beatles are controlled by companies owned by The Beatles.
Today, in book publishing authors still sign away all rights to the publishing company. Even when a publishing contract is terminated or not extended rights are not automatically reverted to the author.
To get their rights back autors have to negotiate with their former publisher. Some authors are successful and get their rights back but most authors aren't. Those authors can not write a next installment in a book series with characters they created because the publisher owns those rights... and the publisher has no plans to monetize those rights because it is not economic feasible for them.