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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5371860" data-attributes="member: 19675">It varies.&nbsp; Typically, each artist would get a little royalty.&nbsp; Sometimes, if a show is crafty, they'll try to get all of their music from one label, streamlining the process.And it's the same kind of story for other forms of IP as well- if tou see a motor oil commercial with an identifiable car, that car company got paid.&nbsp; If you can't ID the car, they probably physically or digitally obscured the car's identifying marks.&nbsp; I've seen commercials filmed in stores where you can tell lots of things have been blurred out- that's about licensing.&nbsp; One commercial I saw for a historical documentary had 21 licenses for various sound or visual clips.You might remember it took FOREVER to get the original HEAVY METAL movie released for home video- the songs were one of the major reasons for that.Now, part of the hangup is internal to the record company deals, in which most post-CD media is technically &quot;unproven&quot; or &quot;experimental&quot; (or some similar term, and thus subject to lower royalty rates.&nbsp; The more powerful artists are, understandably, fighting this, so some tunes may be tied up in litigation, rendering them effectively unlicenseable.But another factor is that- especially for older stuff- nobody included licensing agreements for anything except broadcast &amp; syndication rights.&nbsp; They simply didn't think about it...sometimes because there was no such thing as home video of any kind when the shows were created.For more modern stuff, my bet is The Suits didn't realize or didn't care that some/most of the home viewers would consider the music as integral to the show...and thus always planned to use cheaply produced studio tracks as a substitute.&nbsp; There's a reason the makers of nBSG didn't use Dylan's or Hendrix's version of &quot;All along the Watchtower.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5371860, member: 19675"] It varies. Typically, each artist would get a little royalty. Sometimes, if a show is crafty, they'll try to get all of their music from one label, streamlining the process. And it's the same kind of story for other forms of IP as well- if tou see a motor oil commercial with an identifiable car, that car company got paid. If you can't ID the car, they probably physically or digitally obscured the car's identifying marks. I've seen commercials filmed in stores where you can tell lots of things have been blurred out- that's about licensing. One commercial I saw for a historical documentary had 21 licenses for various sound or visual clips. You might remember it took FOREVER to get the original HEAVY METAL movie released for home video- the songs were one of the major reasons for that. Now, part of the hangup is internal to the record company deals, in which most post-CD media is technically "unproven" or "experimental" (or some similar term, and thus subject to lower royalty rates. The more powerful artists are, understandably, fighting this, so some tunes may be tied up in litigation, rendering them effectively unlicenseable. But another factor is that- especially for older stuff- nobody included licensing agreements for anything except broadcast & syndication rights. They simply didn't think about it...sometimes because there was no such thing as home video of any kind when the shows were created. For more modern stuff, my bet is The Suits didn't realize or didn't care that some/most of the home viewers would consider the music as integral to the show...and thus always planned to use cheaply produced studio tracks as a substitute. There's a reason the makers of nBSG didn't use Dylan's or Hendrix's version of "All along the Watchtower." [/QUOTE]

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