How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
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How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
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Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#2Licensing?
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#3Licensing?
I read the whole thing (all several paragraphs of it) and the answer is, indeed: Licensing.
It's approximately the least-interesting article I've read this year.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#4Licensing?
I read the whole thing (all several paragraphs of it) and the answer is, indeed: Licensing. It's approximately the least-interesting article I've read this year.
Is there any way to make this submission even less interesting? Perhaps we can speculate about parts being written by AI. Did you see any em dashes?
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read the whole thing (all several paragraphs of it) and the answer is, indeed: Licensing. It's approximately the least-interesting article I've read this year.
Is there any way to make this submission even less interesting? Perhaps we can speculate about parts being written by AI. Did you see any em dashes?
It's just a journal style entry, its not bad that its boring, but its so bland. It will become LLM fodder I'm sure.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#6Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too).
This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actually a scandal!
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#7Licensing?
I read the whole thing (all several paragraphs of it) and the answer is, indeed: Licensing. It's approximately the least-interesting article I've read this year.
I found it somewhat interesting that they had to track down all the actors from Happy Days. You would think that there would be one single point of contact with whomever made the video, cause it's not like they were using the footage of the actors in a new way.
But honestly, I'm ok with it being only somewhat interesting. When you write as many posts as Mr. Chen does, they aren't all going to be bangers.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#8I must confess that these kind of corporate storie make me throw up in my mouth.
(Yes, I have karma to burn, hit me)
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#9Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…
It was much worse than just adding it to your library as a gift. The cover art for the album[1] would appear in seemingly random places on your phone. And there was literally zero way to remove it, until there was such an uproar that Apple had to make a special tool.
Apple spent money on this and they really, really wanted to force feed it to every Apple user (not unlike their F1 movie venture). It was incredibly obnoxious.
1 - And it isn't homophobic to note that the Songs of Innocence cover art looked a bit like you were browsing Grindr or something. People have the right to have the opinion that having that image suddenly being featured on their phone might be misinterpreted by others.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read the whole thing (all several paragraphs of it) and the answer is, indeed: Licensing. It's approximately the least-interesting article I've read this year.
I found it somewhat interesting that they had to track down all the actors from Happy Days. You would think that there would be one single point of contact with whomever made the video, cause it's not like they were using the footage of the actors in a new way. But honestly, I'm ok with it being only somewhat interesting. When you write as many posts as Mr. Chen does, they aren't all going to be bangers.
> You would think that there would be one single point of contact with whomever made the video, cause it's not like they were using the footage of the actors in a new way.
That depends. Licensing is a weird nuanced beast. The original video could have received a license to broadcast on something like MTV. MS didn't want to broadcast it, but distribute it. That's an entirely different thing in the licensing world. The fees also change depending on broadcast/distribute. The number of units would be considered and fees based accordingly.