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<blockquote data-quote="Gord Lacey" data-source="post: 285257" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Guys, I nixed a bunch of posts in the thread. I’d really like to keep this forum free of politics. There’s more than enough of that elsewhere; it doesn’t need to be here.</p><p></p><p>msilcommand, you really don’t understand much about copyright law, or licensing, as has been repeatedly pointed out here.</p><p></p><p>Someone in the thread mentioned Shout! Factory releasing WKRP on dvd with nearly all the music intact. That’s a good example of licensing in many ways. Fox released the first season on DVD, but with most of the music replaced. The music was too costly for them to license for the DVD. Well, how did Shout! Factory, a much smaller company, afford it? They afforded it because their license for the music was much narrower. When Fox (along with most of the large studios) negotiates music now, they’re licensing the music for all formats, in all territories, in perpetuity. They don’t want to be hit with another bill for music on WKRP ever again. That means they’re paying a lot of money for the music. When Shout! Factory licenses music, they’re licensing it for a specific term (the term of their contract with Fox for the series), I believe it was 5 years, but I may be wrong with that, and they’re only licensing it for Region 1 (North America), because that’s the only place they release their titles. This is why they’re able to afford the music; it’s for a short period of time, a certain geographic region, and on a single form of media.</p><p></p><p>The Shout!/WKRP situation is similar to the licensing of pinball tables. Had FarSight negotiated a non-exclusive contract for the tables, it would have been for less money, as there’s a chance they’d face competition on the same tables from another company. They had an exclusive contract, and when that contract expired, they could no longer sell the product, just as Shout! Factory will no longer produce WKRP discs once their contract with Fox runs out (though there still may be some in stores to purchase).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gord Lacey, post: 285257, member: 1"] Guys, I nixed a bunch of posts in the thread. I’d really like to keep this forum free of politics. There’s more than enough of that elsewhere; it doesn’t need to be here. msilcommand, you really don’t understand much about copyright law, or licensing, as has been repeatedly pointed out here. Someone in the thread mentioned Shout! Factory releasing WKRP on dvd with nearly all the music intact. That’s a good example of licensing in many ways. Fox released the first season on DVD, but with most of the music replaced. The music was too costly for them to license for the DVD. Well, how did Shout! Factory, a much smaller company, afford it? They afforded it because their license for the music was much narrower. When Fox (along with most of the large studios) negotiates music now, they’re licensing the music for all formats, in all territories, in perpetuity. They don’t want to be hit with another bill for music on WKRP ever again. That means they’re paying a lot of money for the music. When Shout! Factory licenses music, they’re licensing it for a specific term (the term of their contract with Fox for the series), I believe it was 5 years, but I may be wrong with that, and they’re only licensing it for Region 1 (North America), because that’s the only place they release their titles. This is why they’re able to afford the music; it’s for a short period of time, a certain geographic region, and on a single form of media. The Shout!/WKRP situation is similar to the licensing of pinball tables. Had FarSight negotiated a non-exclusive contract for the tables, it would have been for less money, as there’s a chance they’d face competition on the same tables from another company. They had an exclusive contract, and when that contract expired, they could no longer sell the product, just as Shout! Factory will no longer produce WKRP discs once their contract with Fox runs out (though there still may be some in stores to purchase). [/QUOTE]
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