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Prince ends 18-year feud with label, will reissue ‘Purple Rain’

Music icon Prince has ended his long-standing feud with his former label Warner Bros., and has announced a new partnership with the company that will give him rights to his master recordings. The deal is described as “an exclusive global licensing partnership that covers every album released from 1978 into the ’90s.”

Quincy Jones files lawsuit against Michael Jackson’s estate

The producer claims that Jackson’s estate and Sony re-edited songs improperly with the intention of depriving Jones of production fees and royalties. Jones says that the re-edits constitute a violation of an agreement that gave him the right to remix master recordings for albums released following Michael Jackson’s 2009 death.

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