The second of six programmes which tell the stories behind the multinational face of the pop music industry.

This programme reveals the unknown names who create songs for the stars and the copyright battles that can ensue.
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The Music Biz 9.40pm BBC2
Write a hit song, and you need never work again. Buy the copyright to someone else's hit songs, and neither you nor your friends need work again. Michael Jackson invested $42 million in buying the Beatles' catalogue, and earns money every time a Beatles record is played or performed.
The Music Biz looks at the spectacular pitfalls that await the unwary songwriter who doesn't pay close attention to the complicated paperwork. Jimmy Merchant and Herman Santiago wrote Why Do Fools Fall in Love? in the 50s, a song that has earned millions of dollars. But one of them drives a taxi cab, and the other is on welfare. Why? Because businessmen were reaping the rewards of the writers' work. The Music Biz follows the history of the ten-year legal case to its dramatic conclusion.