Famous Music (1928–Today)

Famous Music (1928–Today) Founded as the music-publishing arm of Famous-Lasky Corporation (the predecessor of Paramount Pictures), Famous was originally built solely from new songs by Paramount’s staff composers. (Warner Bros. and MGM chose to purchase the back catalogs of other firms in order to start their music-publishing businesses.) Famous holds over 100,000 copyrights of popular songs and movie music. It is now part of the media conglomerate Viacom, which purchased Paramount and its…