"But now that music isn't available to be cleared and the expense of replacing the entire score makes the process financially impossible for most shows"
What exactly does "isn't available to be cleared" mean? I can understand it being expensive, and I also understand situations where determining who actually owns the rights is confusing or multiple entities have laid claims to the rights, but I do not know what is meant by not available to be cleared.
Yeah, it's a vague description, but it covers a lot of weird, complicated problems. For instance, a bunch of 1960s and early 1970s Warner Brothers TV shows used library music the network had licensed. The license has long expired and the company that created the music no longer exists. So they couldn't re-license the music even if they were willing to pay whatever was asked.
There are a surprising number of quirky situations like that.
LOL! I noticed it right after I sent out the email. Weirdly, Grammarly didn't catch it. And I didn't notice it because at the time I was running on very little sleep. Still, you're right, it's a pretty dumb mistake.
The use of "needle drop" stock music was common in the early days of TV- Hanna-Barbera used them for many of their 1950s series. I imagine the fact that "Quick Draw McGraw" has never yet gotten an official DVD release has a lot to do with that music on its soundtrack.
"But now that music isn't available to be cleared and the expense of replacing the entire score makes the process financially impossible for most shows"
What exactly does "isn't available to be cleared" mean? I can understand it being expensive, and I also understand situations where determining who actually owns the rights is confusing or multiple entities have laid claims to the rights, but I do not know what is meant by not available to be cleared.
Yeah, it's a vague description, but it covers a lot of weird, complicated problems. For instance, a bunch of 1960s and early 1970s Warner Brothers TV shows used library music the network had licensed. The license has long expired and the company that created the music no longer exists. So they couldn't re-license the music even if they were willing to pay whatever was asked.
There are a surprising number of quirky situations like that.
quibble, quibble, I know but you are a writer, after all. The newsletter should have 'gone out' not 'went out...."
LOL! I noticed it right after I sent out the email. Weirdly, Grammarly didn't catch it. And I didn't notice it because at the time I was running on very little sleep. Still, you're right, it's a pretty dumb mistake.
The use of "needle drop" stock music was common in the early days of TV- Hanna-Barbera used them for many of their 1950s series. I imagine the fact that "Quick Draw McGraw" has never yet gotten an official DVD release has a lot to do with that music on its soundtrack.