Everything about Famous Music totally explained
Famous Music was the worldwide music publishing division of
Paramount Pictures, a division of
Viacom. Its
copyright holdings span several decades and includes music from such
Academy Award-winning motion pictures as
The Godfather and
Forrest Gump. It was founded in
1928 by Paramount’s predecessor, the
Famous-Lasky Corporation, to publish music from its "talking pictures."
Famous Music also provided licensing and administration services for many prominent music catalog owners such as The Clyde Otis Music Catalogs, as well as for other Viacom divisions including
MTV,
Nickelodeon and
BET.
For a number of years, Famous Music also had a record label group division. The labels, including
Dot Records and
Paramount Records, were sold to
ABC Records in 1974. They are now owned by
Universal Music Group.
In May
2007, Viacom sold Famous Music to
Sony-ATV Music Publishing for a reported $370m, best known for owning the copyrights to most songs by
The Beatles.
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