March 21, 2022

Recently, we’ve seen many news articles on the sale of celebrity archives for significant amounts of money.1 Archives are a particular asset consisting of a compilation of music, writings or other artistic expressions. Bruce Springsteen’s recent half a billion dollar catalog sale was only the latest mega-transaction in 2021, a year in which many prominent artists’ catalogs were sold, garnering astounding prices. Other notable musicians sold their archives for large amounts (for example Bob Dylan for $300 million, and Elvis, Paul Simon, Neil Young and Tina Turner each for mega-millions). Charles Schulz, the creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip, is consistently one of the highest earning deceased celebrities. In a typical year, his heirs h...
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