I'd heard that about WKRP -- that efforts have been ongoing to renegotiate all the rights, but it's just an incredibly long and tortuous process, and getting the rights to a couple of songs that are key to particular scenes or episodes (and thus not replaceable with more legally accessible songs) is proving flatly impossible. It was music-rights wrangling that delayed the release of the full run of
My So-Called Life
on DVD for at least a year after folks had signed up and paid for their sets and the production company had committed to it.
eta: x-post due to my slowness
I don't think they foresaw the market. How many TV shows did you own on video? All I had was what I'd taped. Now, on DVD, I have bought a brazilian. It would be very easy to not see that technology shift coming.
I assumed the negotiations were current.
I have an old tv show, I want to do a DVD release, I go to negotiate the rights -- it would seem sensible zeitgiest-wise for the owners of the old music to make it accessable in this way. A DVD isn't going to cut into their record sales and may even encourage some.
thanks god it's "news"radio.
Speaking of, I heard a rumor the aforementioned will be broadcast in Nick at Night over the summer.
I know people who are afraid Supernatural will never be released on DVD for that same reason.
Tell them not to fear! It's already been scheduled for release this August or September.
ETA: Found the link. September 5.
The owners of music are the same ones who won't let their lyrics be published on the web, never mind how you might feel about the RIAA shenanigans.
The owners of music are the same ones who won't let their lyrics be published on the web, never mind how you might feel about the RIAA shenanigans.
Well that makes sense. It competes with the owners financial interests -- they want to sell the songs themselves, not have them down-loaded and carried around on i-Pods without getting a cut.
No one is carrying around their DVD player in order to listen to the music from TV episodes. Rather, if a customer likes the music enough they're going to track it down and buy it.
It competes with their financial interests -- they want to sell the songs themselves, not have them down-loaded and carried around on i-Pods without getting a cut.
The only connection I've found between finding lyrics online and putting songs on my iPod is when reading the lyrics made me buy them.
The only connection I've found between finding lyrics online and putting songs on my iPod is when reading the lyrics made me buy them.
Ah, I mis-read you.
Well that's stupid too. Unless its being used in some defamatory sense in either venue its only going to be positive (or have no effect at all). They should by all means protect their rights, but it would behoove them to come up with an easy contract for the new mediums.
I don't think the lyrics sites are seeking to pay for their content in any case; they're just using it either to sell advertising or install something on your computer.
