DVD Special (Musical) Edition!

Yes yes yes! Have been waiting for it. Doubt it will happen though unfortunately :(

"I want everything I've ever seen in the movies!" -Leo Bloom

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Prince did. I kid you not.

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All agreed here. Attitudes toward movie musicals have changed dramatically in the past ten years. I wonder how it would look/sound today. I think all the songs were original and I think Prince was only one of the songwriters. I think Sinead O'Connor even wrote a song or two.

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For what it's worth Brooks is on board for a DVD with all the original song sequences restored. At one of the press gatherings for the release of his movie "How Do You Know" (Dec 2010) he told MTV News: "I wanted to do it, and then I couldn't get the rights,"
More: "It's so funny you should ask because yesterday I spoke to the first human being who told me that he had seen the original cut with the songs in them - and it's so long ago for me now - but I said, 'How was it?'" Brooks laughed.
"You know, it's definitely a lose-lose situation for me because there's no answer that's going to make me happy," he continued. "'The thing you put out was much better. This was sh**.' There's no great answer for that. And it was a complicated answer. It was six of one, half-dozen of the other. But it's so funny... this film was locked up before the Internet happened, so how does anybody have a copy of it?"
I'm not sure exactly what he means by those comments. You can find the soundtrack, Prince songs anyway, of the cut songs with a quick Google search.

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Same legal thing with song rights on ...

This is nothing new, sad to say.

The DVD release of VALLEY GIRL was held up for about a decade over music rights, but it did finaly get done.

Reportedly, the final season of the TV series CHARMED should be a lesson to (overly?) greedy music rights holders though. Apparently the negotiations stalled over money, and the pressing of the DVD box set was a scheduled thing with no room to delay, and the CHARMED 'people' took the precaution of building up a version of the season with the broadcast music replaced by 'original new music'. The negotiations went to the evening before the pressing date, when the music rights holders finally agreed to the amount long ago offerred by the series owners. Too bad they didn't know about the music being replaced, so their music rights were no longer worth anything...
SHOCKER!!! That season has none(?) of the broadcast music in the box set.

Granted, the situation with the final season of CHARMED is very different than musical numbers, but if they hold out too long, no one will care, and they are back to the "zero value". And, copyrights only last for "a while", and NOT forever.
(Think "public domain", even with the maximum number of copyright renewals.)



Or, it **might be** that the ownership of the rights has been divided, (possible reasons include divorce and inheritance, for instance), and not all the owners can be reached, or agree on price, or even approve of doing the DVD release. In some cases, an owner might be incapacitated, and a court or steward may be the decision maker... That could lead to only once each year that any business on that partial ownership would be considered, possibly eliminating on-going negotiations.

just sayin'

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