Late last year, the auction for composer DJ Kalkutta’s “New Americana” royalty rights closed. The final bid? $79,200. The bounty? Perpetual IP ownership of her (now-former) piece of the pie. Kalkutta essentially exchanged the future dividends she would continue to make on her Halsey hit for a lump sum of money.
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