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Sample vs. Production pin.

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shardian:

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--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 03, 2008, 12:22:12 pm ---CV is one of the few collector piece pins I really like.

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And it doesn't have movie licensed graphics and sounds all over the darn thing.

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Stern doesn't even bother getting the licensed sounds for most of their movie games. Examples: POTC and Batman. Both have random ---smurfy--- sound that has hardly anything to do with the movie.

Spiderman and LOTR do have movie sound though. Weird huh?

ChadTower:

That doesn't bother me much and isn't really anything new.  There have been lots of licensed pins in the past that didn't even have the actual actors on them.  Back to the Future is a good example.  I like the pin Spiderman because of the general theme - I'd rather it was less tied to the movie than more.  Same with Dark Knight and LOTR.

RayB:
Every little piece of a movie or TV tie-in costs extra. Back when I worked on NES games, for the Terminator movie license, all [my employer] had rights to was the title, the title logo, and rights to imitate the scenes and robots in the movie. The terminator could NOT look like Schwarzneger. They didn't have the rights to "his likeness" or his voice. It would cost too much to get those rights.

Same goes for sound samples. Each one has to be licensed and paid for.

shardian:

--- Quote from: RayB on December 08, 2008, 09:49:48 pm ---Every little piece of a movie or TV tie-in costs extra. Back when I worked on NES games, for the Terminator movie license, all [my employer] had rights to was the title, the title logo, and rights to imitate the scenes and robots in the movie. The terminator could NOT look like Schwarzneger. They didn't have the rights to "his likeness" or his voice. It would cost too much to get those rights.

Same goes for sound samples. Each one has to be licensed and paid for.



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That is where I wonder about licenses on pins.

For instance, when Steve Ritchie did Spiderman, Sony gave him the ENTIRE audio track from all 3 movies (3 wasn't even out yet) to do whatever he wanted with. That interview led me to believe that Sony had an active part in the pin as a promotional item - not Stern paying Sony for the rights.

ChadTower:

I wouldn't be surprised if each of the pins had slightly different contracts.  Hard to use one to compare to the others.

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