Boycot $ony or not

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Will You Boycott $ony?

  • Yes

    Votes: 13 23.6%
  • No

    Votes: 33 60.0%
  • Undecided

    Votes: 9 16.4%

  • Total voters
    55
  • Poll closed .

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BOYCOT SONY OR NOT (response to justice4michaeljackson.com)
This is in response to http://www.justice4michaeljackson.com/fanact_0008.php

First of all, I would like to state that I do enjoy following/support this blog and I recommend it to MJ fans. It’s informative and it’s apparent that entries are written with genuine love & devotion. Thank you, the blog owner/owners.
That being said, I respectfully disagree with the remarks regarding Sony Boycott. Post points out that even in 2002, Michael himself didn’t boycott Sony so why should we now? SIMPLY BECAUSE MICHAEL WAS ALIVE THEN, NOW HE IS MURDERED. There is no conspiracy. As an intelligent human beings, all we have to do is connect the dots to realize that Sony has been preparing Michael’s demise for a long time. I think most of us agree that Sony, for years, plotted against Michael to acquire the Sony/ATV Catalog. Michael himself, in numerous interviews, stated to us that there was A LOT OF CONSPIRACY AROUND HIM. At that time, AEG & CC weren’t the picture so he was talking strictly Sony. Sony was behind the child molestation allegations& Invincible album sabotage and they are one of the parties involved in Michael Jackson murder.
"My level of trust will change. There's a lot of conspiracy going on. I'll say that much. A lot of it. All around me"
"Don't leave me, they are trying to kill me"

"I am afraid of my life and for my children. I am so scared"

"I'm very concerned about my life"
MICHAEL JACKSON
I ask you, if a company X murdered your mom or dad, would you support them? “Well Michael owns %50 of Sony, boycotting Sony hurts Michael”. First of all, technically, MJ owns only %25 percent. When Sony “helped” Michael to restructure his loan in 2005, Michael signed off for Sony to have the option to buy half of his share. Sony can execute that right today LEGALLY & RIGHTFULLY. Sony also acquired the right to match any offer and be a priority to own the rest of %25, when it is for sale.
Reasons the Catalog has not been sold YET is, first, the timing. It’s too soon, it’d be too suspicious. GO TO SONY/ATV’S WEBSITE. It says “Sony executives DECLINED to comment on status of the Jackson Estate's Sony/ATV stake". What a surprise that is! It’s not if the Catalog will be sold to Sony, it’s when! Secondly, Sony’s concern was that MJ’s share would end up in bankruptcy Court due to loans MJ borrow and mismanaged. Well, Sony has their man, Branca “managing” the business affairs now. Loan will be restructured, Michael is no longer spending, by marketing MJ name loan will be paid off so there is no such danger anymore. Sony executors sleep peacefully now, for chance.
"And then the Estate could move forward with the restructuring of the Sony/ATV deal" - Randy Phillips
Why is Randy Phillips of AEG concerned about what Estate does with Sony/ATV deal?

It’s not like, if we pour money to MJ unreleased songs, the children and Katherine will benefit each month. They get a certain percentage each month, regardless of how much comes in or goes out of the Estate, they will get the SAME amount, not more, not less. The only thing, you will accomplishing by contributing is paying Executors’ “incentive fee” and you are pulling the rug off of under us because without witholding our buying power, WE HAVE NO POWER.
So given everything that has happened, his murder and everything, we don’t know that Michael wouldn’t ask for us to boycott. It’s upto us to make that judgement call now that he is dead and I see absolutely no sense in paying people who killed Michael, who treated him unkindly despite of the billions he made for Sony! I would feel like I am betraying Michael and I love him too much to do so. We promised him we "will be there", so be there.
If your moral compass is leading you to put money in the pockets of those who killed Michael, be my guest if your conscience is clear. But let us not be under any pretention that you are doing so because you believe this is what’s good for Michael and his children.
To say "BOYCOT SONY" would be an understatement. Do NOT participate in anything Sony, AEG, CC or Branca endorses. Can’t you see, they are selling the Michael Jackson NAME to profit themselves under the banner of "but the estate gets some too" BS! Yes but does the children & Katherine have immidiate access to that money? NO!
Who do executors have issue letting Mrs Katherine have a seat and have a say in deal? She is NOT asking to be an executor, just a seat! But that would mean, Katherine would know what Branca is doing with money and that would be awful. IF Branca has Michael's well being in heart, SO DOES KATHERINE JACKSON, SO WHERE IS THE CONFLICT? Believe me, Branca is not working this hard to protect Michael’s well being or that of the children. Make no mistake, regardless of what it says on paper, BRANCA WORKS FOR SONY & AEG!
Every dime you contribute says “thank you for murdering Michael, here’s your reward”! Can you HONEST TO GOD tell me that if Michael was alive he would have given Sony the distribution rights of his unreleased songs? If your answer is no, why support it? Simple as that.
I think most of you just can’t wait to hear his new songs and only making excuses to comfort yourselves. Michael intended these unreleased songs for his children to release them, not SONY.
BOYCOT EVERTHING THAT AEG, SONY & BRANCA PUTS OUT…. DO IT OUT OF L.O.V.E
Exercise your buying power to let Sony, AEG & Branca know how you feel, otherwise, they could care less how you and I feel. The ONLY way they might hear us is if their wallets are affected. If you object to Sony boycott, you might as well give up your fight for MJ Justice, what reason do they have to listen to you.

Boycott until current executors resign or until MJ children take control.
http://xltweet.com/show/?id=50555C545C
 
aslong as mottolas not involved then i dont see any reason to boycot.
 
No, I will not boycott Sony. Maybe back when Mottola was running things I would have considered it, but not now. Each to his own-
 
I love my PS3, boycotting Sony means I heave to buy the xbox360:puke:
 
Ok, you may or may not choose to support Sony. But what you cannot do is enourage or discuss ways to get MJ's music illegally. Not here.
 
Real talk a lot of fans are going to boycot sony when they are the ones who have to sellout out to payout MJ estate so the people who are involved plus his kids can eat. All i know i know what i am doing i have all his music and a thing called download
 
To boycott Sony (and his companies) means not to buy CDs, DVDs, TV's, Photo Cameras, Film Cameras, mp3-Players, USB-Sticks, etc.pp.
( examples on http://www.sony.co.uk/section/home + http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/sony-united )

There are families that live from their sony-incomes: factories, theaters/cinemas, stores etc.pp.

A handful customer on this globe will not longer buy articles or somewhat from Sony, will the company go bankrupt now? Of course not.
Do you really mean to help our late Michael (and his catalog) when you boycott Sony? Of course not.


Everyone can do what he wanna do.
But I will not boycott Sony.
 
^^ I saw it yesterday :giggle:
the blog is about DRM: copy protection software for CDs - 2005-2007 *rofl*
 
^^ I saw it yesterday :giggle:
the blog is about DRM: copy protection software for CDs - 2005-2007 *rofl*

:lol:

Anyhow, I don't see the point in boycotting Sony. If MJ had such an issue with John Branca I would think he would be smart enough to take him out of his will. We can hate John Branca all we want, but he is the executor because that was Michael's will. It wasn't like he put himself in there. Michael put him in charge. Ain't nothing we can do about that.

Sony is a multi-billion dollar company. They have products all over the world, they have thousands of artists on their label. They have millions of people buying their movies, their DVDs, their electronics, their CD's... A few MJ fans boycotting isn't going to make them look up and say "damn, we're loosing money here". If every MJ fan in the world decided not to buy Michael's albums, what do you think would happen? We'll see headlines saying "Michael Jackson's 'new' album a flop." Michael's legacy would suffer from this headline, much more then Sony's pockets. Do you think Sony would care? Of course not. They're making billions on PS3's and Blu-rays, and DVD's, and TVs, and music... MJ fans boycotting them isn't going to have any significant impact in their annual income. So I don't understand what we could possibly accomplish by boycotting.

Michael's issues with Sony were more about certain individuals then the company anyway. He always respected Walter Yetnikoff. He always respected "Mr Morita". It's not 2001 anymore. Sony is run by a different set of people.

Here's what I think: If you like the music, buy it. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Forget all the politics, forget Sony, AEG or any other company. Take them all out of the equation. If you like it, buy it. Sony and AEG would still be rich regardless of what we do.
 
For me, I think it is important to boycott Sony.

I found this site which lays out a great argument:

link:
http://mjfansboycottsony.weebly.com/index.html

Michael Jackson's will, if you've seen MUZIKfactory2 videos, then you know this will is phony. http://www.probatelawyerblog.com/2009/07/read-michael-jacksons-will-1.html
This is a document where Joe Jackson pointed out blatant conflicts of
interest w/ Branca as executor or Michael's estate:

http://www.etonline.com/documents/et_jjackson_filing_091110.pdf

Judge Beckloff inexplicably tossed it out. But reading the document,
the conflicts are pretty blatant - and even moreso when we consider
the sweetheart deals Branca has made with $ony since MJ's death - all
benefiting $ony and Branca/McClain of course.​
http://mjthekingofpop.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/back-in-2002-why-invincible-became-invisible/ AMAZING article, done a few years ago,around the time it happened! Explaining all about $ony & Michael Jackson, a must-see!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW1T1DZdWrA The video that started it all for fans, Michael speaking in London in June 2002, with fans, about $ony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wYJxXb4Ec The other video from that protest in June 2002, Michael outside with fans protesting $ony.
http://michaeljackson.ae/truth/SONY-thru-the-years.pdf $ony pdf-file that outlines history of them as well.
http://www.mj-777.com/?s=Tohme+Tohme MUST READ paragraph on $ony here & why you should boycott is touched on.

More articles about $ony's treachery & history with Michael, from Seven~MUST READ THESE WELL RESEARCHED ARTICLES:
http://www.mj-777.com/?p=2636

http://www.mj-777.com/?p=1633

http://www.mj-777.com/?p=859

http://www.mj-777.com/?p=3005



Also this site recommends to read Lynton Guest's book. I haven't read it myself yet. Has anyone read it & what do you think?

Also, there is a vid that has been forced to be taken down by Sony, Muzikfactory2 has said this about it:




MUZIKfactory2 (2 days ago)

The video that released for the first time to public, the Dileo-AllGood Contract is removed b/c SONY claimed it had "Sony content". That video ONLY had the contract & MJ's Sony Sucks Protests. Is Sony owning the SONY SUCKS speech now? STOP BEING RIDICULOUS! You are mad because the contract was released!!!! THIS IS SONY PROTECTING DILEO! Dileo has been dodging AllGood court since June but yesterday judge ordered his attny MUST accept service.




I would like to know if anyone knows more about this. Makes me very angry.
 
I think MJ is turning over in his grave now that Branca signed the deal with Sony. This vid is very good, I have never seen before, the protest is very large - I wonder what RF was writing during this period to smear MJ. MJ filmed many things in his life according to Oxman. It would be cool to see what he filmed from his perspective:





 
there are 2 important points that's being forgotten in this argument.

1. Although all of those above links, pages etc are very good in explaining the events happened during 2001-2002, they assume that the time stopped and nothing changed after that time period. However this is hugely incorrect.

If you listen to Michael's "Killer Thriller" speech he says that he needs to give them a best of with a new song and that would satisfy his current contract and he'll be a free agent. He did that with "Number Ones" which had the song "One More Chance".

After his contract was over Essential Michael Jackson, The Ultimate Collection, Visionary Box Set, Thriller 25 and King of Pop albums were released all with Sony. Between these the most relevant one is "Thriller 25" which was released in 2008, which had new songs, which had other artists, which was produced by Michael and Wil.i.am, which Michael participated in its promotion by giving interviews, which is released by Sony.

So like it hate it before Michael died, before Branca become an executor Michael was working with Sony doing/releasing projects with them.

Of course the relationship most probably wasn't all lovey dovey or he didn't want to be tied for long term but apparently if the project and the conditions were right he wasn't totally against working with Sony. (most probably due to Mottola no longer being there?)

2. The boycott that they are proposing is really flawed - not really well thought. See what they propose " just don’t buy anything they’re selling that is Michael Jackson-related." Let's play a game now, let's say "what if this boycott becomes successful and Michael Jackson fans do not buy a single copy of Michael Jackson related stuff that comes out of Sony".

- The albums/concert DVDs / games etc does not sell, they all become a flop. Media labels Michael Jackson as a fad that passed. (media will never report this fans success over boycotting sony based on a 2001 event) Michael's legacy is hurt.

- Sony loses the album costs and promotional costs.

- Any company seeing that the project will not be profitable, they cancel all the future MJ related projects. All the other companies seeing that MJ related projects do not sell , will not be interested in making any deals and releasing any stuff with the estate. (no company will think like ooh the fans are only protesting sony and they'll buy stuff from me - that's just too risky) In short companies do not release any MJ related projects as they are seen unprofitable, fans left without MJ.

- Estate is hurt financially. They have to return any advances, future projects being cancelled and other companies not willing to make agreements with them they can't earn any money to pay for the debts and/or to provide for the MJ's children in the future.

note: this wouldn't result in a change in executors as legally they are evaluated on the quality of the deals they make. How many copies an album is going to sell, how many people will come to see a show etc is non controllable events by the executors. so their position is solid as they got Michael the biggest deal in the music industry, no one can predict/gurantee how well or bad an album is going to sell and no one will be held responsible for it.

- Sony continues to be a big multinational company. Yes they might face some loses on MJ related projects due to the fan boycott but they will cut down that loses by cancelling the future projects. Additionally other artists, other products, other areas they operate will continue to bring them money and they will continue to be this giant company.

so the question is this , "if this boycott succeeds who are you really hurting?"

and let's go the he very first post the article and see this question
"even in 2002, Michael himself didn’t boycott Sony so why should we now?"

True. When the disagreements between Michael and Sony was at its peak at 2001-2002, Michael never said "don't buy invincible, don't buy my albums from Sony" and why would he? Yes Sony then, now and in the future earns money from Michael's music but so does Michael. and yes executors get a 10% share from the money Michael earns but the 90% of the money goes to the estate and his children and mother.


Everyone is going to make their own decision whether to boycott Sony or not. , I simply recommended thinking in detail before jumping on any side.
 
there are 2 important points that's being forgotten in this argument.

1. Although all of those above links, pages etc are very good in explaining the events happened during 2001-2002, they assume that the time stopped and nothing changed after that time period. However this is hugely incorrect.

If you listen to Michael's "Killer Thriller" speech he says that he needs to give them a best of with a new song and that would satisfy his current contract and he'll be a free agent. He did that with "Number Ones" which had the song "One More Chance".

After his contract was over Essential Michael Jackson, The Ultimate Collection, Visionary Box Set, Thriller 25 and King of Pop albums were released all with Sony. Between these the most relevant one is "Thriller 25" which was released in 2008, which had new songs, which had other artists, which was produced by Michael and Wil.i.am, which Michael participated in its promotion by giving interviews, which is released by Sony.

So like it hate it before Michael died, before Branca become an executor Michael was working with Sony doing/releasing projects with them.

Of course the relationship most probably wasn't all lovey dovey or he didn't want to be tied for long term but apparently if the project and the conditions were right he wasn't totally against working with Sony. (most probably due to Mottola no longer being there?)

2. The boycott that they are proposing is really flawed - not really well thought. See what they propose " just don’t buy anything they’re selling that is Michael Jackson-related." Let's play a game now, let's say "what if this boycott becomes successful and Michael Jackson fans do not buy a single copy of Michael Jackson related stuff that comes out of Sony".

- The albums/concert DVDs / games etc does not sell, they all become a flop. Media labels Michael Jackson as a fad that passed. (media will never report this fans success over boycotting sony based on a 2001 event) Michael's legacy is hurt.

- Sony loses the album costs and promotional costs.

- Any company seeing that the project will not be profitable, they cancel all the future MJ related projects. All the other companies seeing that MJ related projects do not sell , will not be interested in making any deals and releasing any stuff with the estate. (no company will think like ooh the fans are only protesting sony and they'll buy stuff from me - that's just too risky) In short companies do not release any MJ related projects as they are seen unprofitable, fans left without MJ.

- Estate is hurt financially. They have to return any advances, future projects being cancelled and other companies not willing to make agreements with them they can't earn any money to pay for the debts and/or to provide for the MJ's children in the future.

note: this wouldn't result in a change in executors as legally they are evaluated on the quality of the deals they make. How many copies an album is going to sell, how many people will come to see a show etc is non controllable events by the executors. so their position is solid as they got Michael the biggest deal in the music industry, no one can predict/gurantee how well or bad an album is going to sell and no one will be held responsible for it.

- Sony continues to be a big multinational company. Yes they might face some loses on MJ related projects due to the fan boycott but they will cut down that loses by cancelling the future projects. Additionally other artists, other products, other areas they operate will continue to bring them money and they will continue to be this giant company.

so the question is this , "if this boycott succeeds who are you really hurting?"

and let's go the he very first post the article and see this question
"even in 2002, Michael himself didn’t boycott Sony so why should we now?"

True. When the disagreements between Michael and Sony was at its peak at 2001-2002, Michael never said "don't buy invincible, don't buy my albums from Sony" and why would he? Yes Sony then, now and in the future earns money from Michael's music but so does Michael. and yes executors get a 10% share from the money Michael earns but the 90% of the money goes to the estate and his children and mother.


Everyone is going to make their own decision whether to boycott Sony or not. , I simply recommended thinking in detail before jumping on any side.

:dropdead:
 
there are 2 important points that's being forgotten in this argument.

1. Although all of those above links, pages etc are very good in explaining the events happened during 2001-2002, they assume that the time stopped and nothing changed after that time period. However this is hugely incorrect.

If you listen to Michael's "Killer Thriller" speech he says that he needs to give them a best of with a new song and that would satisfy his current contract and he'll be a free agent. He did that with "Number Ones" which had the song "One More Chance".

After his contract was over Essential Michael Jackson, The Ultimate Collection, Visionary Box Set, Thriller 25 and King of Pop albums were released all with Sony. Between these the most relevant one is "Thriller 25" which was released in 2008, which had new songs, which had other artists, which was produced by Michael and Wil.i.am, which Michael participated in its promotion by giving interviews, which is released by Sony.

So like it hate it before Michael died, before Branca become an executor Michael was working with Sony doing/releasing projects with them.

Of course the relationship most probably wasn't all lovey dovey or he didn't want to be tied for long term but apparently if the project and the conditions were right he wasn't totally against working with Sony. (most probably due to Mottola no longer being there?)

2. The boycott that they are proposing is really flawed - not really well thought. See what they propose " just don’t buy anything they’re selling that is Michael Jackson-related." Let's play a game now, let's say "what if this boycott becomes successful and Michael Jackson fans do not buy a single copy of Michael Jackson related stuff that comes out of Sony".

- The albums/concert DVDs / games etc does not sell, they all become a flop. Media labels Michael Jackson as a fad that passed. (media will never report this fans success over boycotting sony based on a 2001 event) Michael's legacy is hurt.

- Sony loses the album costs and promotional costs.

- Any company seeing that the project will not be profitable, they cancel all the future MJ related projects. All the other companies seeing that MJ related projects do not sell , will not be interested in making any deals and releasing any stuff with the estate. (no company will think like ooh the fans are only protesting sony and they'll buy stuff from me - that's just too risky) In short companies do not release any MJ related projects as they are seen unprofitable, fans left without MJ.

- Estate is hurt financially. They have to return any advances, future projects being cancelled and other companies not willing to make agreements with them they can't earn any money to pay for the debts and/or to provide for the MJ's children in the future.

note: this wouldn't result in a change in executors as legally they are evaluated on the quality of the deals they make. How many copies an album is going to sell, how many people will come to see a show etc is non controllable events by the executors. so their position is solid as they got Michael the biggest deal in the music industry, no one can predict/gurantee how well or bad an album is going to sell and no one will be held responsible for it.

- Sony continues to be a big multinational company. Yes they might face some loses on MJ related projects due to the fan boycott but they will cut down that loses by cancelling the future projects. Additionally other artists, other products, other areas they operate will continue to bring them money and they will continue to be this giant company.

so the question is this , "if this boycott succeeds who are you really hurting?"

and let's go the he very first post the article and see this question
"even in 2002, Michael himself didn’t boycott Sony so why should we now?"

True. When the disagreements between Michael and Sony was at its peak at 2001-2002, Michael never said "don't buy invincible, don't buy my albums from Sony" and why would he? Yes Sony then, now and in the future earns money from Michael's music but so does Michael. and yes executors get a 10% share from the money Michael earns but the 90% of the money goes to the estate and his children and mother.


Everyone is going to make their own decision whether to boycott Sony or not. , I simply recommended thinking in detail before jumping on any side.

So another words, if you are a big, powerful corporation you can do what ever the hell you want to and still be OK, because the system is set up to protect you.
Time to change the world!
 
Contains coarse language (but funny as f*ck!):
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So another words, if you are a big, powerful corporation you can do what ever the hell you want to and still be OK, because the system is set up to protect you.
Time to change the world!

Of course you can always decide to go with the flow. If everyone does this no change will ever be made in the world.
 
Of course you can always decide to go with the flow. If everyone does this no change will ever be made in the world.

Right on Maria! That is what Sony counts on and expects!

We can change the world, Mike couldn't do it by himself!
 
Muzikfactory2 has a new vid up. She is brilliant as always & this one is especially pertinent to the subject of whether to boycott Sony.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MUZIKfactory2#p/u/0/s6xW6Ih0oC8




http://www.youtube.com/v/s6xW6Ih0oC8&hl=en_US&fs=1&

"Michael was beset with trials and tribulations which, on face of it, were unconnected to each other. There was the prosecution on child abuse charges, the downturn in record sales, the financial catastrophes and the struggles to retain ownership of assets such as Sony/ATV, his back catalogue of recordings and Neverland. Yet far from being coincidental, everywhere we detected the HIDDEN HAND OF $ONY attempting to orchestrate events"
- LYNDON GUEST, author of "The Trials of Michael Jackson"
 
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How Michael Jackson Went From Being A Partner of Sony to A Sony Product
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In 1985, Michael Jackson acquired ATV Music Publishing catalog, which held most of the Beatles songs, and ten years later negotiated an offer of $90 million dollars and half interest in Sony Music Publishing in exchange for half interest in the ATV catalog. With the merger, Jackson became half owner in the third largest music publishing company in the world, renamed Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The president and CEO of Sony Corp. welcomed the merger and praised Jackson for his efforts in the venture. Early on however, Sony showed signs of wanting the entire catalog and began pushing to buy all of Jackson's share in the song publishing company. Jackson maintained that he would never sell the Beatles catalog. [/FONT]
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]In 2002, his CD Invincible had gotten off to the fastest start of any of his albums, including Thriller, in reaching $5 million in sales. It only needed to earn $2 million more to break even, and the singer stood to have another huge successful CD. Sony was seeking to create a need for Jackson to sell the Beatles catalog and began to defund support for Invincible and various other projects. Jackson's charity single, What More Can I Give, a fund raiser for families of 9-11 victims, was not promoted at all. [/FONT]
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The singer began an investigation and discovered that his attorney in the deal, John Branca, was also representing Sony. Jackson further learned that Branca had embezzled money from him and put it in an off-shore account. Michael Jackson sued in 2003 to get out of his contract with Branca. [/FONT]
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]When Jackson later refinanced his debt with the Fortress investment group in 2007, Sony corp. helped facilitate the deal. In return, Sony secured the right to purchase half of Jackson's share in Sony/ATV at a predetermined price, leaving him with just 25% of the company -- Sony also would become managing partner. And if Jackson's career or financial situation were to deteriorate further, Sony had obtained the right to match any future offer on the pop star's remaining 25% stake.[/FONT]
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Sony also showed interest in MiJac, holder of Jackson's old tunes, and obtained the right of first look at purchasing the singer's own catalog. Before the pop star acquired the Beatles catalog, he had been buying up rights to his earlier songs for his MiJac label, which had not been a part of the Sony deal. Over the last 3 decades, Jackson had been collecting material he produced with many other chart-topping artists he intended to use for future projects. [/FONT]
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Upon his death, Katherine Jackson, his mother filed court documents in an attempt to safeguard her late son's assets, stating that because Michael had died without a wife or adult children, the family was legally empowered to take control of the estate, and asked that a special administrator be immediately appointed to oversee bank accounts and lucrative enterprises which were controlled by "unspecified third parties." Court documents also pointed out that at least one person was improperly claiming to have a power of attorney to act on Jackson's behalf (power of attorney ends at death). [/FONT]
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Now with free reign to act as it chooses, the first transaction of the Michael Jackson Family Trust was with Sony Music Entertainment, whereby an agreement was reached on a distribution deal that included the mega star's unreleased projects; his recordings, DVDs, video games and theater, which was said to be worth $250 million. Branca and John McCain, his co-executor, each earned a $2.5 million fee for their part in negotiating the deal with Sony. The Michael Jackson Family Trust executor said of the deal, "We and Sony feel that the future for Michael Jackson is unlimited."[/FONT]
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"We think the recordings will always be an important part of the estate," Branca said, "new generations of kids are discovering Michael … A lot of people that went to see 'This Is It' were families. 'This Is It' was one of the few American films allowed into China. So we think there are growing and untapped markets for Michael's music."[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]In the nine months since his death, according to Billboard, 31 million copies of Michael's albums were sold as well.[/FONT]
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"There are also audio rights for theatre, movies, computer games," Branca announced to the media. "I don't know how an audio soundtrack will be used in 2017, but you've got to bet on Michael Jackson in any new platform."[/FONT]

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