Money Week

Good week for:

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Bob Dylan has sold the master recordings for his 39 studio albums to Sony Music in a deal estimated to be worth $200m, based on the roughly $16m in income generated by the songs each year, says Billboard. Last year, Dylan sold his songwritin­g rights – which are separate from the recordings – to Universal Music Publishing for a reported $250m-$300m.

A series of pictures of Indonesian student Sultan Gustaf A l Ghozali have sold for more than $1m after he uploaded them to non-fungible token (NFT) platform OpenSea, says AFP. Ghozali took almos t1, 000 daily photos in front of hisc omputer to make a graduation video, but turned them into NFTs as a joke. He initially priced them at 0.001 ethereum ($3 at the time), but after a celebrity promoted Ghozali on social media, sales took off, with one selling for two ethereum ($5,250).

Bad week for:

Two US film fans are suing Universal Pictures for featuring Ana de Armas (pictured) i n a trailer for a film where she didn’t appea r,sa ys Variety. Conor Woulfe and Peter Ros zae ach paid $3.9 9tor ent Beatlesthe­med comedy Yesterday before finding that De Armas’s scenes had been cut. Their su it accuses the studio of “deceptive marketing”and demands at least $5m in compensati­on for unhappy viewers.

Joshua Estrella Gomez was arrested after alleged lyt rying tos cama former 911 dispatcher in New York by claiming to be her grandson in need of $8,000 to bail himself out of jail, says Newswee k.J ean Ebbert notified police, who waited until Gomez turned up, this time pretending to be a bail bondsman, and detained him as he left with an envelope that supposedly contained the money.

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