They don’t even respect the integrity films and shows themselves anymore. Now in later releases they’ll remove the music that was selected by the director to best pair with a scene, simply because they don’t want to keep paying royalties for releases of old movies. And that’s if they don’t just stop selling them all together.
It’s sadly been an issue for several decades with TV. Older TV shows used in re-runs would often have the original music replaced if it was anything by big bands because they didn’t want to continue paying those royalties. They’d even sell DVDs with lousy replacement music instead.
They don’t even respect the integrity films and shows themselves anymore. Now in later releases they’ll remove the music that was selected by the director to best pair with a scene, simply because they don’t want to keep paying royalties for releases of old movies. And that’s if they don’t just stop selling them all together.
It’s sadly been an issue for several decades with TV. Older TV shows used in re-runs would often have the original music replaced if it was anything by big bands because they didn’t want to continue paying those royalties. They’d even sell DVDs with lousy replacement music instead.