John Fogerty Finally Acquires Rights to His CCR Songs!

"The company reinstated the artist royalties Fogerty had relinquished to Zaentz in 1980 to get out of his Fantasy deal, which he’d signed as a teenager and, unwisely in retrospect, renegotiated with Zaentz in 1970 while acting not only as the group’s singer, songwriter and lead guitarist but also its manager. Zaentz went on to a successful career as a film producer that was largely funded by his Creedence profits, winning Oscars for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Amadeus” and “The English Patient.” Fogerty attempted to acquired his publishing from Zaentz in 1989 and the two agreed upon a number, but at the last minute, Fogerty says Zaentz doubled the price and the deal tanked. Zaentz died in 2014."


Mr Zaentz doesn't sound like a pleasant human being. 
Good that he owns the pub rights to his own songs again.
They are his songs. Also there's a lot of money in owning the publishing rights. 

I had read a book about Michael Jackson once. 
He outbid Paul McCartney to own publishing rights to some of the Beatles' songs.
Paul was the one who told Michael Jackson he was trying to buy the rights to their songs.
So he felt pretty betrayed when Michael Jackson bought them.