When I bought Julia Davis’s Nighty Night series on DVD, I was looking forward to the key scene where Jill rides a horse into her husband’s funeral and does a dance number to “Alone” by Heart, and it was semi-ruined because they’d had to replace it with a different track.
It seems like there’s definitely something broken in the way creators (or more realistically, copyright rentiers) can sell their rights to downstream creators, yet still have rights over the derivative work. Rights holders like to insist that IP is exactly like physical goods, but when you sell a pineapple, the whole point is that you get paid because you lose the right to eat the pineapple.
