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Outrageous-Door8924 OP t1_j9w73g1 wrote

Reply to comment by furtherdimensions in ELI5: [Law] What happens to music rights when music artists sell their music catalog? What about performing their songs at concerts? Future releases? by Outrageous-Door8924

I had a hunch that the answer would be, "It's not entirely black and white", but felt like asking anyway, because I'm not at all operating in the field of law myself. Thanks for explaining and confirming.

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furtherdimensions t1_j9w7v3s wrote

Yeah intellectual property agreements are a lot more complex than real property agreements because real property agreements deal with something tangible. There's a "thing". A house. A car. A book. A piece of land. There's a tangible, identifiable, physical thing in place here. And those contracts are really "who gets to do things with the thing" and break down a lot easier.

Intellectual property gets way more complicated because you're involved in the sale of an idea.

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