Quoth Immortal1982
View Post
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Booo Netflix
Collapse
This topic is closed.
X
X
-
Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
-
I'll give a good example for rights. The anime Eden of the East was broadcast and released in japan with a theme song by the rock group Oasis. When it was licensed (in the us by Funimation) it would cost them an extreme amount of money to license the song. That applies to all territories.as there are rules in place for the music. In this case they had to use another song.
Tl;dr. Its not as cut and dry. Especially with foreign, streaming, etc.
Comment
-
Quoth wolfie View PostOne thing that Netflix *should* be able to do (don't see how this could be illegal on their part, but IANAL and I don't play one on TV either) is list WHICH version of a movie/TV series they are renting. Using Star Wars as an example, they could tell people it's the:
- Original version first released in theatres
- Edited for TV version of that
- Re-release from when Phantom Menace was in theatres (this is the one with the cheesy new scene of Jabba confronting Han, but Han's part in this scene is re-using his footage from another scene, stormtroopers riding CGI lizards, and the anti-canon bit with Greedo shooting first).
For "WKRP in Cincinati", they could include a reminder that the distributor of the DVDs they are using was unable to obtain rights to the original songs used when the series was in first-run broadcast, and therefore substituted alternate music.
Comment
-
music liscences are also why we will (probably) never see the last 2 seasons of the original Muppet Show on DVD/BluRay. they freely admit there are edits in the first 3 seasons wher song liscensing is an issue.Lister: This is Crazy. Why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone?
Cat: You're right. We're Nuts! This is an insane conversation....
Lister: She'll never leave Fred and we know it.
Comment
Comment