Fisher's Copyright

Matthew Fisher, an organist from the British psychedelic group Procol Harum had returned himself the copyright to one of the band’s most famous songs Whiter Shade of Pale, said BBC. According to the House of Lords rule, the highest court in Britain, Fisher should own fourty percent of the original copyright. Fisher’s court struggle was going on since 2006, when he began to insist on the fact that his organ part in a song should be appreciated and valued according to his terms. The court took Fisher’s side, but later Procol’s vocalist Gary Brooker and the author Keith Reid have appealed it’s decision, so things began to hang in the air. Organist kept on saying that his part of a song is ‘the main crop’, and he surely deserves some positive feedback. Whiter Shade of Pale is the first and most successful single that was ever produced by the band; in 1967 during six weeks this song was staying on the first spot within the British major hits list. In the US it went up to the fifth spot. Procol Harum had tried to repeat this incredible success in the later years, but this kind of magic did not happen again. In 2004 Matthew Fisher had left the band and currently works as the computer programmer.

A Source: ThatsJustMusic.com