dylan, who began his career with sony s columbia records in 1961, has said he was glad all his recordings could stay where they belonged. we can now speak to larry miller, who s director of the music business program at new york university s steinhardt school. he isjoining a pretty rarefied company, isn t he? what do you think spurred this? well, there is no more rarefied company, we are talking about the most iconic music catalogues in the english language. what spurred it? i think it was a few things. a little bit over a year ago, bob sold the rights and his musical compositions, that is, the music publishing rights, to universal music publishing, the north of $300 million. and although bob has controlled the rights in his sound recordings,