Case report · ABK-166

ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.

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Needs attention

  • The two active ABKCO catalogue entries matched to these claims have empty copyright_types. Confirm whether ABKCO asserts master rights, composition rights, or both for each work before treating either estate as in scope.
  • No work-specific title instrument or general Third Chair authority document was identified in the five active ABKCO organization files. Confirm the exact-work rights basis and applicable authority to act; case routing to legal-partner organizations does not establish either.
  • Copyright-record leads are limited or name different claimants/claim scope; they do not fill the catalogue-estate gap or establish ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.’s present rights in either selected recording/composition.

Rights by work

  • House of the Rising Sun — The Animals

    • Master: Not listed for this work in the matched active catalogue entry (copyright_types is empty); estate scope and rights basis remain for confirmation.
    • Composition: Not listed for this work in the matched active catalogue entry (copyright_types is empty); estate scope and rights basis remain for confirmation. Registry records below concern an Eric Burdon musical arrangement and do not establish ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.’s rights in the underlying music and lyrics.
  • Wild Horses — The Rolling Stones (“Wild Horses - 2005 Digital Remaster”)

    • Master: Not listed for this work in the matched active catalogue entry (copyright_types is empty); estate scope and rights basis remain for confirmation. The surfaced ABKCO-related registration covers new remixing in a compilation and identifies pre-existing sound recordings, so it does not by itself establish the selected remaster’s title chain.
    • Composition: Not listed for this work in the matched active catalogue entry (copyright_types is empty); estate scope and rights basis remain for confirmation. The renewal records name Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, not ABKCO.

Posts

TikTok timestamps have no stored timezone.

PostWorkPosted
TikTok ↗House of the Rising Sun — The Animals2026-02-02 01:23:15
TikTok ↗House of the Rising Sun — The Animals2026-02-26 02:51:08
TikTok ↗House of the Rising Sun — The Animals2026-03-13 17:01:38
TikTok ↗Wild Horses — The Rolling Stones2026-06-11 23:53:36

Supporting documents

  • PA0001224200 — The stored registration response identifies “House of the Rising Sun” as music, claimant Eric Burdon Music, and authorship as “arr.: Eric Burdon.” It does not name the case owner.
  • PAU003770292 — The stored response identifies Eric Burdon and ABKCO Music, Inc. as claimants of the musical arrangement and says “Transfer: By written agreement.” It expressly limits the material to the arrangement and excludes “music and lyrics”; ABKCO Music, Inc. is not the case owner ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
  • SR0000090923 — The stored response for Hot rocks, 1964–1971 names “Abkco Records, a division of Abkco Music and Records, Inc.” as claimant; the included new matter is “remixing,” and the record notes pre-existing sound recordings fixed before 12 Feb 1972. The album contents include “Wild horses,” but this is not a transfer instrument or proof of title to the selected 2005 digital remaster.
  • RE0000807808 and RE0000773973 — The stored renewal responses for “Wild horses” identify Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as claimants; they do not name ABKCO.
  • No ABKCO organization document is listed as title or mandate support: the active library had 5 documents, all with extracted text and search vectors; no title match for either work was found in filenames or text. The files surfaced were onboarding forms and settlement agreements concerning other works. This scoped library result is not proof that no relevant instrument exists elsewhere.

Document check

Still needed

  • Confirm the claimed estate(s) for each catalogue item and provide the matching work/version rights basis for those estates.
  • Confirm an applicable ABKCO authorization for Third Chair to pursue this case. Case routing/escalation fields alone do not establish a mandate.

What supports the chain

No complete master or composition chain can be stated while the matched catalogue entries list no estate. The reviewed registration responses are leads with the limited scopes and claimant distinctions above; no work-specific ABKCO organization instrument was identified in its active library.