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Article: Don't expect complete 'Wonder Years' DVDs any time soon...

CrankyYankee said:
(Because)...full seasons of the show remain locked up, as costly music licensing has postponed their release.

http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/p...S/607150312/1045/FEATURES17&template=printart
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Guess anything involving The Beatles per se,"With A Little Help From My Friends" being a Beatles song sung by Joe Cocker,who had the charted hit with the song,is out of reach.

Take the first season DVD of "Life Goes On" and they deleted "Ob-La-Di,Ob-La-Da" from it which was also a Beatles song yet it was sung by the whole cast. They replaced it with generic instrumental music.

Guess this also means Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley(which already have first seasons out,but have yet to release any more season DVD's) and especially WKRP In Cincinatti aren't seeing DVD releases any time soon.
 
I doubt WKRP will ever come out on DVD, or if it does, it'll have all the music replaced like the syndicated versions and VCR releases. Would folks pay a premium price for 'KRP on DVD?
 
No greed, just the benefits of writing a song. Can YOU write one that sells? Them YOU can go to your mailbox and get a check.

It beats the HELL out of being a DJ! Ask Fred and Dick.
 
Personally, it's still "greed", on the count of the publishers and their organisations (such as ASCAP) -- because of the popularity of TV shows and films on DVD, they since jacked up their rates, especially on the most-popular songs, to make them cost-prohibitive.

About 15 or 20 years ago, there wasn't any problem paying the necessary licensing fees for TV usage, but, since then, there was more money to be had.
 
Greed on the part of ASCRAP and BMI, yes.

They are the people who represent the composers.

If you wrote a song and got a deal like those they offer, you'd laugh all the way to the bank.
 
Tom Jurek said:
No greed, just the benefits of writing a song. Can YOU write one that sells? Them YOU can go to your mailbox and get a check.

It beats the HELL out of being a DJ! Ask Fred and Dick.
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In a word... bull. It is greed.
 
Bear in mind that the reason that WKRP was shot on videotape and not film was to pay the licensing fees for all tyhe music they used.
 
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