Timbaland Gifted Royalties to Tedder

Timbaland allowed OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder to keep 100% of the publishing rights for the remix of Apologize. Tedder’s manager said, “He’s not trying to take food off your table. He produced the remix. You wrote the song.” Tedder said the gesture changed his life—it helped him buy a home.

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