For example: TV show X licenses pop song Y for its initial broadcast. The group that owns the syndication rights didn’t buy the right to use song Y, consequently they have to replace the music with generic Muzak in subsequent broadcasts.
You pay for Netflix, start watching show X, and when it gets to the big dramatic moment with sweeping music (that you remember from when the show originally aired), it’s replaced with elevator music.
Same goes for a lot of movies.
It would make more sense if existing documents could still retain their colors, but new documents couldn't be made with the Pantone colors in question. It'd still suck, but it'd be more respectful to the end users of the software.
> Same goes for a lot of movies.
Wait wat? Do you have some examples / links?
Though evidently the first season release did include original music, but had an exorbitant (retail) price - subsequent seasons they did the ol' elevator music swap-in.
Aside - it explains why, so I've been told, there's two similarly popular torrents out there, one high-quality DVD-rip with a bad score, and one low-quality VHS-rip with the original score.
I think these are just oversights in the contract in a way. I would hope we'd see less of these mishaps as time goes on and companies get better at writing long-term outcomes into their contracts. It would be a pain in the butt to write software that handles legacy licensing per user over a live service though.
There are plenty of older releases of Photoshop available on torrent sites that will install locally, that should have long passed into public domain if copyright law were sane. If Adobe isn't even willing to sell you a version of Photoshop, and insists that you can now only rent it, that's yet another reason to not feel bad about piracy.
They all want their recurring revenue because some other corporation is doing it. There is no more thought put into it than that.
play sad trombone sound.
It did appear that companies with reoccurring revenue based on a monopoly are valued much higher than ones that produce single shot revenue. I think the solution would be to change corporate tax laws to even things out a bit. Like treat rents off things like Pantone as pure taxable profit.
Adam Smith, the guy who came up with capitalism, wrote about the evils of rent seeking. You need a regulatory approach.
Of course an issue here is that at some point in future you won't be able to install older Adobe products, specially on macOS.