McCartney Times

The Beatles: The Lost Concert, a documentary about a Beatles’ concert held in Washington DC in 1964, was at the centre of a copyright infringement claim in the recent case of Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Limited v WPMC Limited, Iambic Media Limited (In Liquidation). The documentary incorporated video clips from the concert, which included the performance of twelve Beatles’ songs. Claims were brought against WPMC/Iambic, the documentary-maker, by both the US and UK entities of Sony/ATV as the copyright holders of the twelve songs in the US and UK respectively. The judge had three issues to decide as set out below; the first two were concerned with contract law issues and the third a copyright law issue.

Source: The Beatles: issues with contract and copyright – Lexology