"Simon Dean" <sjdean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Mediajock wrote:
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> > "Simon Dean" <sjdean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>As for the DVD's, yes, its very disappointing. Last I heard anything
was
> >>back in November. issues with music licensing. And there's like 3 more
> >>episodes than any other seasons.
> >
> >
> > The full story can be found here:
> > http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=870
> >
> > Apparently the music hawks want the money every way they can get
it...what's
> > next, radios with coin slots?
> >
> >
>
>
> Heheh. Pay Per View TV! No wait.
>
> Maybe a vote, who'd pay an extra $5/£5 to get Season 2 on DVD? What's
> the max you'd pay?
Even that small amount is a little too much for me. It's the principle of
the issue. I mean, the music has already been "paid for" when it was
integrated into the show, why should we pay again?
A similar incident of double-dipping occurred several years ago when radio
stations were essentially banned from carrying their signal online because
music right holders screamed that they needed to be paid for that
broadcast.
Excuse my, but radio stations have already paid for the music when they
license; why do they need to pay again for an online cast?
It's things like this that turn people to net piracy...
> Through the whole of this situation, its clear there are problems. The
> question, what's the severity? Has it permanently stopped Season 2, or
> are Fox still trying?
They have to essentially start all over again on the budgeting and
preproduction administrative side. They have to go to all the music
publishers and clear, one by one. Given that these publishers know that
the
release of the DVD depends solely on their approval they unfortunately
have
a lot of bargaining power.
Then everything like sales and cost will have to be reprojected and
rebudgeted - once they have a new unit price they will have to figure out
how many copies will sell at what price and how many to make.
If they started all this today the DVD would be out in 6 months to a year
from now.
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