United Consortium Ltd. (UCSO)

[amadeus]

here is my guess, from reading some of the previous history of the catalogue and having a little bit of experience in the music biz. owning rights to the sound recordings is not the same as owning the copyright of the composition itself. so hindsight saw the opportunity to buy a block of recordings of live performances, which themselves can be duplicated, rebroadcast and licensed. a composer/songwriter gets paid a royalty no matter who plays their work. but the owner of the soundrecording (usually the record label) get a royalty also for owning the soundrecording copyright. an oversimplification perhaps, but maybe that helps a bit. so with a huge catalogue of 20,000 recorded tracks, it comes down to the marketing expertise of the people trying to monetize the catalogue through new licensing efforts of the catalogue of recordings. whoever wrote the compositions and/or owns the songwriter/copyrights stands to gain from the licensing/usage as well, unless the songwriter/copyrights have expired...