> They don't even know exactly which rights they hold. To be fair, having worked for a company that was dealing with music licensing and having to investigate

> They don't even know exactly which rights they hold. To be fair, having worked for a company that was dealing with music licensing and having to investigate how to put stuff into a coherent format ... I'm not entirely surprised. Things like Dave (Eurythmics) Stewart having 10[1] different names (because it'd been recorded differently by different companies / publishers / etc.) (but they all have to resolve to him), restrictions like "Europe but not Germany for the 1993 version of song Y", and the whole difference between mechanical, master, print, performance, sync licenses etc. Spent 4 months working closely with a licensing veteran but was still utterly baffled by the time I quit. [1] I forget exactly how many but IIRC it was into double figures.