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.
The lyrics thing mystifies me, I don't see where they are losing anything there.
Now the DVDs make sense, you have the rights to music being used and you want to get as big a cut as you can. You don't want to take a smaller cut for a particular DVD release because that undermines your position for other deals, so maybe some deals don't get made. I doubt they are worried about the five people who are going to rip the ac3 stream, translate to mp3, and edit out the music.
