Music and copyright: Ravel’s big loot

It begins as a nursery rhyme “with drawers” for children: the daughter of a first marriage of the second wife of the husband of the nurse masseuse of Maurice Ravel’s brother. You follow? Nope? It’s normal. In 85 years, the rights of the composer of Swiss ancestry Maurice Ravel have come a long way, transiting through numerous tax havens, to land on the Lake Geneva region in the hands of Evelyne Pen de Castel.

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