Brakujące rozszerzone Bondy
: śr lip 07, 2010 08:59 am
Kendall rozwiewa wątpliwości.. 
I have asked MGM and EMI about the rights status of the Bond scores today and never get any kind of answer. I think the personnel there right now honestly don't know due to some vagaries in the agreement between the two companies over the rights of the UA Records catalog.
I'll explain further, since nobody else will. The UA Records catalog was long ago owned by the then-MGM/UA entity and distributed by EMI (Capitol). In the 1990s MGM and EMI had a lawsuit over who owned the soundtrack titles that were part of the catalog (the UA Records catalog itself, as far as pop albums and such, belongs to EMI now). There was something vague in the distribution agreement (this kind of thing happens a lot) having to do with when a title reverted from UA the record company (EMI) to UA the studio (MGM). Basically, if it was out of print (no longer being distributed), it went back to MGM. Two for the Seesaw? Hasn't been in print for decades -- back to MGM. Easy to figure out. But if it was still in print and part of the EMI global distribution behemoth -- the Bond scores, Pink Panther, Dollars films, Rocky, etc. -- it remained with EMI for another period of time, then was scheduled to revert to MGM. I believe, in fact I know, that the term for the Bond, Panther and other titles to revert to MGM has passed. But it's a big deal to end a distribution agreement: you have to close out royalties, delete titles, return masters, etc. Not to be done on a whim. Also can lead to a lot of animosity because of how much work it takes. The easy thing to do is renew that license -- let the stuff go back to where it came and keep the dough rolling. Now as people may have heard, MGM is a shell of a movie studio right now and constantly in the process of almost being sold or worse.
The current Bond producers have deliberately suspended the next Bond movie so that they have leverage and aren't tied to sinking ship with their distribution. It is a nightmare of an environment to do the kind of corporate deal that we are talking about as far as the MGM-EMI record rights. And I suspect that nobody at either company right now truly knows the situation or cares to try to do something. As I have said, I have asked both MGM and EMI, I am told the question will be run up the flagpole, and nothing ever comes down. My discussing it on this message board probably won't help but I can't say I care since it's so much work and I can't think of any circumstance where I would want to watch A View to a Kill again. Thanks gang.
Lukas
I have asked MGM and EMI about the rights status of the Bond scores today and never get any kind of answer. I think the personnel there right now honestly don't know due to some vagaries in the agreement between the two companies over the rights of the UA Records catalog.
I'll explain further, since nobody else will. The UA Records catalog was long ago owned by the then-MGM/UA entity and distributed by EMI (Capitol). In the 1990s MGM and EMI had a lawsuit over who owned the soundtrack titles that were part of the catalog (the UA Records catalog itself, as far as pop albums and such, belongs to EMI now). There was something vague in the distribution agreement (this kind of thing happens a lot) having to do with when a title reverted from UA the record company (EMI) to UA the studio (MGM). Basically, if it was out of print (no longer being distributed), it went back to MGM. Two for the Seesaw? Hasn't been in print for decades -- back to MGM. Easy to figure out. But if it was still in print and part of the EMI global distribution behemoth -- the Bond scores, Pink Panther, Dollars films, Rocky, etc. -- it remained with EMI for another period of time, then was scheduled to revert to MGM. I believe, in fact I know, that the term for the Bond, Panther and other titles to revert to MGM has passed. But it's a big deal to end a distribution agreement: you have to close out royalties, delete titles, return masters, etc. Not to be done on a whim. Also can lead to a lot of animosity because of how much work it takes. The easy thing to do is renew that license -- let the stuff go back to where it came and keep the dough rolling. Now as people may have heard, MGM is a shell of a movie studio right now and constantly in the process of almost being sold or worse.
The current Bond producers have deliberately suspended the next Bond movie so that they have leverage and aren't tied to sinking ship with their distribution. It is a nightmare of an environment to do the kind of corporate deal that we are talking about as far as the MGM-EMI record rights. And I suspect that nobody at either company right now truly knows the situation or cares to try to do something. As I have said, I have asked both MGM and EMI, I am told the question will be run up the flagpole, and nothing ever comes down. My discussing it on this message board probably won't help but I can't say I care since it's so much work and I can't think of any circumstance where I would want to watch A View to a Kill again. Thanks gang.
Lukas
2,30 ?!
100zł różnicy na 100$..
