Music Changes from Original Release


There were a couple of different songs on the VHS I bought recently from the one I recorded years ago on TV. I thought the original one's were better. Do you know why they were changes? What were the names of the original songs?

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It's not just the music that has changed. I have the original VHS and the New one. The guy who is tapping on the glass viles in the Elevator and singing a song. That sound has changed also.
Another scene is the nun walking down the hallway away from the poor people ward. She sings Hava nagila in the new version and in the old version she sings domanique niqua. I do not know why the changes so many differen sounds. We will see what happens whenever they release a DVD

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I'm sure the reason that the songs have changed is because of royalties. They can get pretty expensive. I bought a DVD set for Roswell Season 1 and a lot of the songs changed because the royalties were too expensive, so they changed them. Hope that helps. :)

~Dawn~

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Yep. That's it. A film like this doesn't have the wide appeal as, say, a John Huges' recent re-release of Sixteen Candle and Breakfast Club complete with original sound track. Personally, I'd pay whatever they wanted for this film. Many unreleased TV shows are the same way with me...unedited, I'll pay more.

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Yeah, like the tv series WKRP was gutted of the original soundtrack once the music rights got asserted and royalties requested for multiple thousands of VHS copies...

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The Blu-ray has the original audio.

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I know this is an old message, but I wanted to comment on this topic for the benefit of anyone who might stumble across this message...

The music industry is greedy. I mean really greedy. They want to squeeze every last cent that they can out of the music that they own the copyrights to.

So when a movie like this comes out on home video, the copyright holders ask for huge sums of money to license the songs. Often, they ask for so much money that it's not worth it for the studio to pay it. So the studio goes out and gets cheap replacement music and the recording companies get nothing.

See, it all makes perfect sense!


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Yeah. It's outrageous that people want to get paid for their work. A songwriter deserves to be paid whenever their work is used.
Do YOU work for free?

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Yeah. It's outrageous that people want to get paid for their work. A songwriter deserves to be paid whenever their work is used.
Do YOU work for free?


And exactly how much do they get paid when the record company asks for large sums of money for each song and the movie studio says "screw it" and replaces the music with low-cost substitutes?


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Royalties for the music in films have zero to do with record companies. Fees are collected by the local performing rights society in each country (PRS in England, GEMA in Germany, JASRAC in Japan, SACEM in France, SOCAN in Canada, APRA in Australia and New Zealand, BUMA in the Netherlands, etc.). The "sync fee" for using a piece of music can vary between $15k - $75k. The artist is paid the amount (percentage) they contractually signed for at the outset. The publisher and the artist share the royalties.

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Royalties for the music in films have zero to do with record companies. Fees are collected by the local performing rights society in each country (PRS in England, GEMA in Germany, JASRAC in Japan, SACEM in France, SOCAN in Canada, APRA in Australia and New Zealand, BUMA in the Netherlands, etc.). The "sync fee" for using a piece of music can vary between $15k - $75k. The artist is paid the amount (percentage) they contractually signed for at the outset. The publisher and the artist share the royalties.


OK, so when the local performing rights society asks for too much money and the movie studio replaces all the copyrighted songs with low-cost substitutes for the DVD release, how much money do the artists of the original songs make?


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The ORIGINAL percentage they signed for in the contract in the first place. Most the time, it is the producers of the films that are balking at paying the artist again - deeming their work to be replaceable and not that important. The actual fees in the original contract will not have changed. Nobodys percentage (artist or publisher) will have changed at all.
There is no "evil corporate" money grab going on here.

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The ORIGINAL percentage they signed for in the contract in the first place. Most the time, it is the producers of the films that are balking at paying the artist again - deeming their work to be replaceable and not that important. The actual fees in the original contract will not have changed. Nobodys percentage (artist or publisher) will have changed at all.
There is no "evil corporate" money grab going on here.


So you're telling me that they get royalties from sales of a DVD that DOESN'T include their music? That they make exactly the same amount of money as they would if the DVD included their music?


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