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Originally Posted by bonjovi90
In terms or royalties - I'm curious if they hold the copyrights to their own live shows or are these usually in the hands of the record company as well? Does anyone know how that usually works?
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As Alpha said, Jon almost certainly owns the rights to anything they recorded, expecially in the last 10-15 years. Some contracts will stipulate that they own anything the band (jon) does while under contract to them, but that's a very bad, very old school contract. Lots of contracts were like that in the 80s/90s (remember credits on other people's records, such a "Jon Bon Jovi appears courtesy of Mercury Records"), which could explain why we are only getting later footage - I expect Jon negotiated a new contract at some point.
Some of the stuff that was recorded for broadcast will be owned by the respective stations/channels.
What Jon doesn't own is all of the publishing to the songs that he co-wrote. He can't simply give these songs away for free without paying the appropraite royalties, which is the only reason that I can think of for only sharing 3 songs per show?