They're making money off of content they don't own, though.
Hence my parenthetical "this is probably the whole point."
That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - May 05, 2006 12:38:14 pm PDT #5658 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - May 05, 2006 12:42:04 pm PDT #5659 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't know that F&G's one Styx song necessarily starts a revival
They also did "Lady." Then there was that "Mr. Roboto" in the car (VW?) commercial. I think that was the whole of the Styx revival.
Trudy Booth - May 05, 2006 12:42:17 pm PDT #5660 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
They're making money off of content they don't own, though. It's basically reprinting copyrighted material. I don't think a songwriter is thinking about the advertising, so much, but that they're using someone else's property for their own profit. I don't know if RIAA is involved or not, but I imagine ASCAP and BMI should be.
I assume they are and I'm not saying they shouldn't be. And the songwriters, etc. should absolutely profit (unlike they are now when a show goes un-released).
I'm saying it would behoove the record companies to have a boiler-plate, simplified, rights-obtaining agreement that starts with low payments which would increase with higher sales.
Jesse - May 05, 2006 12:42:21 pm PDT #5661 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sara: take out.
Spidra Webster - May 05, 2006 12:51:58 pm PDT #5662 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
And David and Corwood beat me to the F&G stuff. I know there are a couple songs they couldn't get for the DVD release but I don't know which ones. I suppose I could do a marathon viewing of my VHS F&G and then my DVD F&G...
Lee - May 05, 2006 12:52:38 pm PDT #5663 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I'm down to 3 hours and 8 minutes.
Gross.
Nutty - May 05, 2006 12:58:05 pm PDT #5664 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
There are a lot of songwriters out there just eking a living off of rights
The sad part is how little of the fee actually ends up going to the rightsholder. I was working with fiction writers, pursuing permission to reprint one short story per person, and all of them were appalled that their companies were charging like $2000 for a story, and then the authors themselves were getting like $200 of that.
(All of them had signed the appropriate contracts; there was no illegal hijinkery; they just hadn't actually thought through the part where they're not the ones who get to set the permission fee.)
(Sometimes, having an appalled author on your side is really useful in browbeating the company to lower its fee. And then, as is the case with Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever," the reprint fee is $4700, whether you like it or not.)
(Nobody reprints that story any more, since the fee went up.)
Hayden - May 05, 2006 1:18:20 pm PDT #5665 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
David: what Spidra said. There were a few songs they had to switch out, but I'm not quite up for the marathon viewing experience to document them. Now that I think about it, though, I seem to recall there being a website that did so. Because the Internet was created by people who have a lot more free time than I do, and that's scary.
Lee - May 05, 2006 1:25:29 pm PDT #5666 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
So what are people doing this weekend?
I suspect my weekend will involve a lot of vegging and cleaning, since I'll be avoiding the traffic from the graduation ceremonies at the college down the hill from me.
sarameg - May 05, 2006 1:34:43 pm PDT #5667 of 10002
sara: take out.
msbelle can tell you how foreign this idea is to me. I'm blind to it the way I am blind to coffee shops.
But I have an A&W cheesburger, so I'm good. Did you know they now make "veggie bites" which I gather and broccoli and cheese in a fried nugget. I didn't try them.