I got to thinking about this a little and I'm gonna stick with 'WKRP Clause.' Reason being, Disney lost to Peggy Lee and ended up releasing the original Lady and the Tramp. But WWTBAM, et al., wouldn't bother fighting you. They'd either edit out your appearance or just never run the episodes again.Spaceman Spiff wrote:Perhaps a more accurate name for it is the Peggy Lee Clause. A lot of this came up after Ms. Lee's lawsuit with Disney over the music in Lady and the Tramp.Volante wrote:I call it the "WKRP Clause." Back in the good ol' days of TV (Read: before VHS) songs were licenced to appear on TV and TV only. When VHS came around (and DVD), music rights were not secured for that medium, so they would have to be renegotiated. Unfortunately, this meant the music rightsholders were able to jack up the price...so the TV rightsholders said, "Screw it" and either replaced or omitted the songs. WKRP is considered one of the prime examples due to all the music they used and flat out cant' relicence it due to cost (expect WKRP to come out on media some time in the early 2100s). It's also the same reason Married With Children has a hackneyed muzak pseudo-"Love and Marriage" monstrosity on DVD.
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Calling it the Peggy Lee Clause gives hope that you might win over the studio. WKRP Clause, well, doesn't.