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04-05-2004, 05:18 PM
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New Article on Music Clearances
There's an article in Newsday, by their longtime critic Diane Werts, about the problem of clearing music rights for TV shows on DVD. WKRP is of course mentioned, as is "That '70s Show" (I hadn't noticed that that show used a whole lot of '70s music, but maybe I wasn't paying enough attention), and the work that Shout! is doing in bringing out music-heavy shows like Freaks and Geeks and SCTV. Interesting read overall:
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04-05-2004, 05:25 PM
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According to Peter Staddon, "[in 1978], they didn't think about the need to clear [song rights] for home video, because home video didn't exist, let alone DVD."
Yet some of us believe that years earlier, the producers of Kung Fu were already thinking of formatting the tv show for eventual widescreen release? I don't think so. 
Back to the topic at hand. I sure as hell wish that the studios would spend the extra time and effort to clear the original music. I for one will not accept substitutions, which is why Wiseguy, a tv show I like even more than Kung Fu, isn't on my shelf either. 
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04-05-2004, 05:28 PM
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A good article, thanks for linking it Jaime.
I suggest that everyone read it, especially given that it basically sums up a lot of the problems that some of us have been talking about on this forum for months, on why it might not be so simple just to get rights to even 1 song.
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04-05-2004, 09:23 PM
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I just wonder why the Roswell producers didn't take the time to clear the music for DVD when the episodes were being made. Maybe they got wise later on and maybe we will at least see season 3 with all of the original music. If not, it will be a disappointment that some songs will have to be replaced.
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04-05-2004, 10:25 PM
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Puts a good spin on the explanation for the cost of the SCTV set. If WRKP ever makes it, it's going to be v-e-r-y expensive...
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04-05-2004, 10:43 PM
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I didn't see anything 'new' in that article at all. I still find it abhorent that a studio has to pay out money for playing songs that can increase the artist/group (whatever) wealth by customers buying their CD's later.
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04-05-2004, 11:01 PM
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I still find it abhorent that a studio has to pay out money for playing songs that can increase the artist/group (whatever) wealth by customers buying their CD's later.
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Clearing music rights has little to do with the record companies or, often, even the artists. The rights are typically held by music publishers who have their own interests. There have been cases where an artist was willing to grant the rights to a song but the music publisher wouldn't grant permission or was asking too much money to make it viable for a DVD company. It has little to with CD sales.
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04-05-2004, 11:51 PM
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It's one of those issues that sucks for all parties involved. Personally, I commend Paul Feig, Judd Apatow, and Shout! for recognizing the need to keep the music for Freaks and Geeks and I will gladly pay an extra ten bucks to have the show intact. I wish Fox had done the same with Roswell. I would have paid a little more to have the show as I remembered it, but have been hesitant to replace my tapes with the new set. It would still be a lot cheaper than say, the Star Trek sets, which have no music clearance costs.
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04-06-2004, 12:15 AM
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While it's clear that WKRP is still a long long longshot, here's the question that now occurs to me: if some company were willing to take the plunge and put it on DVD, would Fox be willing to license it out? (Fox has licensed product sometimes -- they're licensing some movies to Criterion -- but I don't know what their policy is on TV shows.)
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04-06-2004, 01:05 AM
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Is there some reason that the makers of these DVD sets can't work out some sort of a deal with artists and/or music publishers to pay a certain percentage in royalties for each set sold? I don't understand why music publishers are looking for one large lump sum payment in order to use a particular song or piece of music. It seems to me that everyone would benefit from just such an arrangement.
That being said, I still really hope to one day see my favorite 80's cop show hit DVD... Miami Vice. THAT is my holy grail of television on DVD sets.
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