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Sony Music Group has finalized a deal to acquire a 50% stake in Michael Jackson's music catalog for $600 million, Billboard reported Friday.

Sony has agreed to acquire half of Michael Jackson ’s catalogue from the star’s estate in what is probably the richest transaction for a single musician’s...

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The deal, which has been gossiped about in the music industry for months, is said to involve Sony purchasing a 50% stake in Jackson's recorded music and songwriting catalogs. That includes not only the estate's share of megahits such as "Beat It" and "Bad," but also the music publishing assets that are part of Jackson's Mijac catalog, among them songs written by Sly Stone and tracks made famous by artists such as Ray Charles and Jerry Lee Lewis.

The long-awaited Bob Marley biopic “One Love” will highlight important moments in the musician’s life – his adolescence in Trench Town, his spiritual growth, the attempt on his life. But as a music industry scholar, I wonder if the film is yet another extension of the Marley marketing machine. Marley…