McCartney owns the publishing rights to Holly's song catalogue.

Copyright has grown from a legal concept regulating copying rights in the publishing of books and maps to one with a significant effect on nearly every modern industry, covering such items as sound recordings, films, photographs, software, and architectural works.

Both sides claim they attempted to resolve the matter without legal action, but the ultimately complicated legal dispute ( involving royalties, publishing rights, and a number of other issues ) soon led to the courts, where Biafra was found liable for the royalties after the jury determined that he had committed fraud and malice, and was ordered to pay damages of nearly $ 200, 000, including $ 20, 000 in punitive damages, to the band members.

Sale of these publishing rights deprived Cervantes of further financial profit on Part One.

Parton was interested until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her, that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded.

The current publishing rights are held by Penguin Books.

Reaching an impasse, De Laurentiis sold the rights to publishing mogul Angelo Rizzoli.

Meanwhile he had to cope with rival claims of publishers Gollancz and Warburg for publishing rights.

They formed their own company, Superhype, to handle all publishing rights.

As derivative works, their films could violate copyright or be controlled by the assets ' copyright holder, an arrangement that can be complicated by separate publishing and licensing rights.

In February 2010, Larrikin Music Publishing won a case against the group arising from the uncredited appropriation of " Kookaburra ", originally written in 1934 by Marion Sinclair and for which they owned the publishing rights, as the flute line in the song " Down Under ".

According to Jerzy Mazurek the native Polish-speaking population, like in other areas with Polish inhabitants, faced severe discrimination from Germanized local administration, in this climate first resistance defending the rights of rural population was formed ; according to Jerzy Mazurek usually teachers engaged in publishing Polish-language newspapers.

Socially, Amanullah enjoyed many of Mahmud Tarzi's thoughts at the time, such as giving women more rights and allowing freedom of press through publishing.

WizKids licensed the RPG rights to FanPro ( who were already publishing for the German version ) until they were acquired by Topps in 2003.

Currently, Catalyst Game Labs ( a publishing imprint of InMediaRes Productions ) licenses the rights from Topps to publish new products.

Located in London, UK, Square Europe was granted exclusive publishing rights in Europe and other PAL territories for all interactive entertainment titles developed by Square.

In addition BMI's online database of the performance rights organization ( of which the Residents and their publishing company, Pale Pachyderm Publishing ( Warner-Chappell ), have been members for their entire careers ), lists Flynn and Fox as the composers of all original Residents songs.

It was developed by Team 17 and the publishing rights were offered to Codemasters who published the game in March 2009.

Though the book and subsequent films helped popularize the diagnosis, later analysis of the case suggested different interpretations, ranging from Mason ’ s problems being iatrogenically induced through therapeutic methods used by her psychiatrist, Cornelia B. Wilbur or an inadvertent hoax due in part to the lucrative publishing rights, though this conclusion has itself been challenged.

A publishing company has been seeking the rights to produce a graphic novel adaptation, though art has been removed for legal reasons.

That same year, he struck a deal with Ludwig van Beethoven, one of his greatest admirers, that gave him full publishing rights to all of Beethoven's music in England.

With the help of Husney, Prince signed a recording contract with Warner Bros .. Warner Bros. agreed to give Prince creative control for three albums and ownership of the publishing rights.

However, he did have to sign away all publishing rights to the songs on the album to Warner Bros. as part of the deal to do the soundtrack.

It is revealed that Holden has dissolved their partnership over Bluntman and Chronic, leaving the viewer with the assumption that he sold the publishing and creative rights over to Banky ( which is corroborated in the beginning of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ).

In June 2007 a new publishing company, headed by Edwin Voskamp and Eric Todd, was formed with the express purpose of bringing Amber DRPG back into print.

* Diceless by Design Site for the future Amber DRPG development and publishing

In addition to the development and publishing of home, online, mobile, arcade, pachinko, and pachislo games, the company publishes strategy guides, maintains its own arcade centers, and licenses its franchise and character properties for use in tie-in products, movies, television series, and stage performances.

Darcsyde Productions is a small-scale Australian web development and publishing concern, based in Melbourne, which has specialised in creating websites and role-playing games ( RPGs ).

Fantasy Games Unlimited, often referred to as just FGU, is a publishing house for both table-top and role-playing games.

The founders of Id Software met in the offices of Softdisk developing multiple games for Softdisk's monthly publishing.

Some newer game consoles, such as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, had publishing policies which mandated the use of anti-aliasing in all games released for them.

Atari published their games for Atari systems, Activision and Epyx would do their computer publishing.

However, the focus of such programs sometimes excludes certain media — film, book publishing, video games, etc.

This theorem was established by John von Neumann, who is quoted as saying " As far as I can see, there could be no theory of games … without that theorem … I thought there was nothing worth publishing until the Minimax Theorem was proved ".

In another side effect, Square Co. ( now Square Enix ) executives have suggested that the price of publishing games on the Nintendo 64 along with the degree of censorship and control that Nintendo enforced over its games, most notably Final Fantasy VI, were factors in switching its focus towards Sony's PlayStation console.

Programmers in software development companies may work directly with experts from various fields to create software — either programs designed for specific clients or packaged software for general use — ranging from computer and video games to educational software to programs for desktop publishing and financial planning.

Philips ceased publishing video games for the platform in 1998.

In the early 1990s, shareware distribution was a popular method of publishing games for smaller developers, including then-fledgling companies such as Apogee Software ( now 3D Realms ), Epic Megagames ( now Epic Games ), and id Software.

Announced on April 27, 1998, Square EA was based in Costa Mesa, California and operated under the supervision of Square president and CEO Jun Iwasaki, and was responsible for publishing and marketing all games produced by Square in North America.

Conversely, Electronic Arts Square, K. K., formed at the same time and based in Japan, was responsible for publishing and marketing games produced by Electronic Arts in Asia.

Under SPI, S & T started including a new game in every issue of the magazine, which along with the regular games SPI was publishing vastly increased the number of wargames available.

The 1970s can be considered the ' Golden Age of Wargaming ', with a large number of new companies publishing an even larger number of games throughout the decade, powered by an explosive rise in the number of people playing wargames.

Havas S. A. was renamed Vivendi Universal Publishing and became the publishing division of the new group, divided into five groups: games, education, literature, health, and information.

In 1984, TSR started publishing novels based on their games.

However, beginning with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the PlayStation 3, Bethesda Softworks began publishing all Bethesda Game Studios games.

A publishing history spanning over 15 years, mixing content with technical and games features.

On January 28, 2008 Black Industries announced that they would no longer be publishing board games, including Talisman.

** Indie game, video games that are created independently of the financial backing of a large publishing company

Game Park also allowed ( under certain restrictions ) the publishing of such homebrew games on their website.