Fascinating read from Marty (Off-Topic)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, August 05, 2014, 10:49 (3554 days ago) @ kapowaz

A lot of people who are making their way up the ladder in a creative role, or one related to video game production seem to come through DBO. I can't speak to the latter exactly, but for whatever it's worth I'd say that whilst ‘work-for-hire’ might feel dirty and wrong, it's potentially the path to something better: the freedom to be creative in the way you want, and get rewarded for it.

There are business realities that make work-for-hire much more desirable. For instance, with a film, there is so much to clear legally with regards to music rights in all the different countries you distribute in, television, DVD, VOD, and Digital download, that if you don't own the score it's going to be a huge pain.

There's problems all the time with licensed music. For instance, there's still no DVD release of The Wonder years, in part because of issues with the music licensing. It's finally been resolved, but it took YEARS.

Do you think MS or Sony is going to want to go through that when they offer an Anniversary, or special retro edition of Halo?