Do they get all of the royalty/publishing/songwriting rights back?
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Depends on who owns the composition and who owns the recording. If I write a song and own the rights to it, but somehow get it recorded for a company who only owns the rights to that one recording, I could theoretically remake the song independently and make money off of the new recording. I don’t know what record company would opt to only own the rights to the recording, unless the artist had a lot of power. Typically the company will force the artist to give up rights to all their songs and only after a few decades (I think) could that person try to get the rights to their song back.
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