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EMI Miller controls the underlying tune; recordings will have their own master rights in addition.
The song itself is administered by La-Car Publishing; various recordings will carry their own additional rights.
Warner controls the underlying song, but certain arrangements, performances, and recordings will have their own protection.
All of Offenbach's music is in the public domain, but certain arrangements, transcriptions, performances, and recordings will have their own rightsholders.
Microsoft owns the rights to Halo.
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Apple Records owns the rights to the Beatle recordings. However, Apple must pay a licensing fee to the music publisher (Sony, Jackson estate, etc.) for the right to use Lennon-McCartney compositions. Out of that money, Paul and John's estate are paid their royalties. Very complicated arrangement.
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No, he doesn't. He owns the rights to "Carolina on My Mind" which is part of the Beatles collection he owns the rights to. He does not own the rights to "South Carolina on My Mind".
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If you are referring to the Rogers & Hammerstein version, their estate owns the rights.
Wixen controls the song, and Columbia controls recordings.