This column comes from Eamonn Forde, a long-time music industry journalist and the author of The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig, and Leaving The Building: The Lucrative Afterlife of Music Estates
An extract from Eamonn Forde's excellent (and very timely) new book, Leaving The Building: The Lucrative Afterlife of Music Estates, out now, via Omnibus Press