"Right now we're seeing a huge surge of requests for all the songs we control, for everything from movies to television shows to tons of merchandising," says Evergreen co-chief executive David Schulhof. Music publisher Evergreen Copyrights, which co-owns the rights to 25 Jackson songs, including Remember the Time and Dangerous, says it has made $1m (£600,000) from rising record sales since the star's death. There's a lot of genuine affection for him and I understand people's desire to hold onto a piece of him." "These things can be done more or less sensitively. "Whenever any big star dies, there's always going to be a mad rush to make a cheap buck," says Caspar Llewellyn-Smith, editor of the Observer Music Monthly magazine. But where is the line between paying tribute and cashing inω Jackson's Number Ones album is still number one in the UK and US, so the genuine desire to remember the man and his music is strong. "It's not about making a quick buck," her lawyer Burt Levitch said.ĪEG Live lawyer Kathy Jorrie recently said: "The longer we wait, the more time passes, frankly, the less interest there will be on the part of the public to come see it." That would coincide with the film and be on the same scale as AEG's King Tutankhamun exhibition, which has attracted six million visitors worldwide.īut that deal has stalled after objections from Jackson's mother Katherine. Jackson has been number one in the album chart in the UK for seven weeks
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