In reply to S****** Blonde.

"Michael Jackson now controlled the publishing rights to every Beatles songs. That meant he was free to license songs like "Yesterday", "All You Need is Love" and "Revolution" to any brand he chose. If he licensed a song for $100,000, the song writers Lennon and McCartney would still get $25,000 each, and the publisher Michael Jackson would get $50,000. In 1987, Michael infuriated Paul when he licensed the song "Revolution" to Nike for $500,000. But there was nothing Paul could do about it now." -celebritynetworth

He didn't own all their song, but all of their hits and most of the songs on all their albums. That's not including owning his own classic and the classic to come (this was in the Thriller era.) The Beatles were MJ's slaves.