# Who owns The Rolling Stones' Catalog?

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**Created:** [October 13, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-the-rolling-stones-catalog/376268 "2006-10-13T02:27:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-the-rolling-stones-catalog/376268/1 "2006-10-13T02:27:27Z")

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Does a record label own the rights to their music? people? a person?

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-the-rolling-stones-catalog/376268/2 "2006-10-13T02:39:00Z")

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"Klein acquired the rights to all of The Rolling Stones’ recordings from the 1960s and a couple from the '70s. Klein’s ABKCO (Allen B. Klein Company) label released the rarest of all Stones albums, Songs Of The Rolling Stones (1975). By the late '90s, some of the 60s albums were becoming hard to acquire on CD. Finally, in 2002, Allen’s son Jody Klein oversaw a re-mastering of the 60s albums, to much acclaim.

Klein bought the rights to music produced by Phil Spector, such as the Philles Records and Phil Spector International catalogues, in the 1980s."

> **[Allen Klein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Klein)**
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> Allen Klein (December 18, 1931 – July 4, 2009) was an American businessman whose aggressive negotiation tactics affected industry standards for compensating recording artists. He founded ABKCO Music & Records Incorporated. Klein increased profits for his musician clients by negotiating new record company contracts. He first scored monetary and contractual gains for Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen, one-hit rockabillies of the late 1950s, then parlayed his early successes into a position managing Sam Ra...