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Tex, Best check those facts:

"even an in-house label, like Madonna's self-owned Maverick Records, would be "competition" to a record label with noncompete/exclusive dealing language in its contract"


Maverick isn't self owned by Madonna. Majority ownership is still with Warner Bros. Maverick was a "vanity" label deal set up to give Madonna the ability to "sign" other artists, & have a boutique imprint on which to release her material. Beyond Madonna's catalog & Alanis Morissette's " Jagged Little Pill" , hits have been few & far between for Maverick.

The part where you refer to "selling their sheet music" is where you've come closest. THAT is the publishing rights that MJ & Sony own of the Beatles catalog. Not any of the actual recordings. Merely a control of how a particular song may be used & presented, beyond the actual sale of recordings. A perfect example of this is the Beatles song REVOLUTION, which Jackson ticked off the living Beatles by licensing to Nissan & Nike for a car commercial and a sneaker commercial. Neither commercial used the actual recordings made by the Beatles.