Buying licenses for old television song music

There are some great gems of music in old television show soundtracks and theme music. I occasionally get the urge to do some sampling and remixing, when I remember what a pain it will be to get clearances for all the tunes.

Today I realized: "this is a job for the Internet!" I did a quick search and stumbled across this interesting post at overlawyered.com:

Why there aren't DVD's of some of your favorite old TV shows

It talks about how production studios are having a hard time getting permission to distribute the music in this new media.

Oh well, if the production studios are having a hard time, I'm sure I would have a much more difficult time. So much for copyright encouraging creativity!
By Albert on August 11, 2009 1:06 PM