Sea of Tunes
Sea of Tunes was a band 's own music publishing by American rock group The Beach Boys.
The company was founded in June 1962 by Murry Wilson and his son, Brian Wilson. Both were part owner of the publisher. The Sea of Tunes should manage all composed of the Beach Boys songs. This referred to a hand on the compositions of Brian Wilson and the cooperation of Wilson and Mike Love, who wrote the lyrics for many of Wilson's songs. Although over the Sea of Tunes and Love's rights were covered, he was not a partner in the firm.
Band manager Murry Wilson took care of the administration. When he was released in 1964 by the band of his duties as manager, he continued to work in the Sea of Tunes until the band in 1966 with Brother Records founded a successor company.
In 1969, Murry Wilson sold with a forged signature of his son the company at A & M Records by $ 750,000. Murry Wilson did this in the wrong assumption that the Beach Boys had financial problems and the songs would lose in the future in value as the Beach Boys in 1969 were not very successful in the United States. Brian Wilson and Mike Love responded indignantly about this sale. In the course of the sale finally turned out that Murry Wilson had many of the common compositions by Brian Wilson and Mike Love is only written to Wilson.
Litigation
In 1989, when Brian Wilson began to work up his past legal, he complained against A & M in order to regain the rights to the songs again. He also sought an action for damages over lost royalties in the amount of USD 100 million. Wilson finally agreed out of court to the payment of 10 million dollars. Since Love and Wilson in turn could not agree on a compensation payment, Love had to go to court now against Wilson. He was awarded compensation payments half of Wilson 's.