ADVOGADOS DE MCCARTNEY BLOQUEIAM A VENDA DOS CARTOONS/MCCARTNEY'S LAWYERS BLOCK CARTOON SALE

As charges foram criadas pela Let It Be hitmaker na década de 1970 quando ele estava trabalhando em um filme semi-animado, The Bruce Show McMouse.

Eles deveriam ter ido a leilão na quinta-feira (16 Jun 2011), mas os advogados que representam a estrela entrou em cena na última hora, alegando que os desenhos ainda pertencem à McCartney.

A vendedora Maggie Thornton é a filha do falecido animador Eric Wylam,  está convencida de que seu pai recebeu as fotos do cantor quase 40 anos atrás.

Ela diz: "Meu pai recebeu uma pilha de rascunhos de papel com esboços e eu sempre acreditei que pertencia ao meu pai."

Mas leiloeiro Chris Albury, que deveria supervisionar a venda, conta a BBC, "Os advogados dizem que são ainda a propriedade de Paul McCartney como o filme foi feito por sua empresa MPL Communications. Como tal qualquer trabalho feito por Paul ou a equipe de trabalho sobre o filme deveria ter sido devolvido a MPL ou ao Paul ao final de sua utilização. Mas isso é contrário ao que Maggie acredita e do que seu pai sempre disse a ela.

"Já em março, foram enviados e-mails, cartas e scans de todas as imagens (para os advogados de McCartney) explicando de onde eles vêm e perguntando se havia alguma boa razão para que eles não fossem vendidos e não ouvimos nada. "

As caricaturas deveriam ser vendidas por cerca de £ 25.000.

The cartoons were created by the Let It Be hitmaker in the 1970s when he was working on a semi-animated film, The Bruce McMouse Show.

They were due to go up for auction on Thursday (16Jun11) but lawyers representing the star stepped in at the eleventh hour, arguing the drawings still belong to McCartney.

Seller Maggie Thornton is the daughter of late animator Eric Wylam, and is adamant her father was given the pictures by the rocker almost 40 years ago.

She says, "My father was given a pile of scrap paper covered in rough drawings and I always believed they belonged to my father."

But auctioneer Chris Albury, who was due to oversee the sale, tells the BBC, "The lawyers say they're still Paul McCartney's property as the film was made by his company MPL Communications. As such any work done by Paul or the team working on the film should have been returned to MPL or Paul at the end of its usage. But this is contrary to what Maggie believes and what her father always told her.

"As far back as March we were emailing, writing and sending scans of all the images (to McCartney's lawyers) explaining where they'd come from and asking whether there was any good reason why they shouldn't be sold and we heard nothing."

The cartoons were expected to sell for around £25,000.

Source: http://www.express.co.uk