Copyrights Keep TV Shows Off DVD

[maxpayne2409]

Well Well Well, once again the Music industry being the money hungry vultures that they are, are once more causing problems, this time over copyrighted music in tv shows

they wont let shows be released on dvd unless dvd companies using the music in episodes pay them (extortionate no doubt) prices to gain the copyright for theyre use on dvd, for instance Love & Marriage by Frank Sinatra is as we all know the song used as the theme music to married... with children, but as the music industry started wanting too much money to use it the dvd releases of season 3 onwards have a brand new theme tune on the titles so that they could be released without the cost of the original song

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and then the music industry wonder why everybody hates them, no1 supports them and ppl download music for fre rather then buying things anymore

thankfully some shows have survived this and moonlighting season 1 and 2 are released in may intact

[spudthedestroyer]

yeah its rediculous, Happy Birthday is compyrighted by Warner Bros, if you sing that in a public place you have to pay license fees.

[maxpayne2409]

LOL the thing is due to it being so believeable im not sure if your joking or not

[spudthedestroyer]

Unfortunately I'm not:
http://www.amusingfacts.com/facts/Detai ... thday.html

In lots of tv series they change the music/lyrics or only sing a little bit of the song.
There's an episode of the simpsons that takes the piss out of it, the one where they are caroling and the lawyer (the evil one) tells them "they must cease and desist this unauthorised version" and then when they say they'll sing one of the public domain ones, the lawyer says as long as they don't use E-flat or G-Major because Disney owns those notes

Its also the reason for the alternative happy birthday in Futurama.

Today, it’s estimated that Warner Bros. Communications, which now owns the copyright, earns $2 million dollars annually for broadcast and print rights to the song.

[maxpayne2409]

oh god lord, i do remember that episode of simpsons now i think about it, its so smegging ridiculous its beyond belief, oh well at least with p2p theyre kinda getting theyre comeuppance

[spudthedestroyer]

I don't think they're any way near to getting their come-uppance since p2p promotes sales of quality goods, so its not all loss

Come-uppance would all the executives of these companies getting sued for copyright infringement, far in excess of what the infringement is even remotely worth, then getting buggered to death by some big black guy called Bubba

[maxpayne2409]

LOL amusingly me and my friends used to also joke about a big black guy called bubba who would bugger people we dont like must be a nationwide thing

[spudthedestroyer]

we stole it from some reference in popular culture that's really old, for example:




Given the name "bubba" and "black", its obviously come from Southern States. Probably some old comedy

[maxpayne2409]

hehe yeah thats the kinda thing we had in mind too, altho that guy in the green mile pretty much seems up "bubba"

[spudthedestroyer]

Tom Hanks?

[maxpayne2409]

LOL no the black guy not tom wanks