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Looks like more and more famous classic rockers are selling the publishing rights to their songs for huge dollars...the latest is Lindsey Buckingham, who just sold the rights to 161 of his Fleetwood Mac songs and solo tunes, plus 50% of unreleased material, to the London-based company Hipgnosis for an undisclosed sum....but to get an idea of the money involved, his former Fleetwood Mac bandmate Stevie Nicks recently sold 80% of her songs' publishing rights to another company for $100 million dollars! Hipgnosis already owns rights to songs composed by Journey, Chrissy Hynde, and more... here's more of the story, plus comments from Lyndsey Buckingham on why he did this: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/lindsey-buckingham-publishing-rights/