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I may have mentioned it before, but this is the most likely process that is going on.
The rights to sync a song to video are essentially an open negotiation. And in the end, a publisher has the rights to deny that sync license for any reason.
To simplify large projects like these, the fairest way to handle it is to enter into what is called a "Favored Nations" agreement. Disney goes to each publisher and says "We want to use your song, we're working out a rate, it will be around this much, but every song on the release will get paid exactly the same. No one song is worth more than the others"
MOST people are fine with this, and it really is the fairest way to do it. The problem comes when you get down to the end, and you've got one or two people saying "my song is worth more than what you're offering, you have to pay us more" which means you're faced with either paying everyone more, or dropping the song.
The reason some companies may be holding out for more money, is that Disney probably can't offer as much as they are used to getting..
If a movie has 3 songs, and costs $20... there is a lot more money to go around than a release like this which has probably 60+ songs and costs $35.
Everybody has to compromise to see this thing out properly. Season 1, Disney proved that they were will to drop songs of people who didn't play fair. Season 2 went off well. There are only so many major publishing companies, so odds are Season 3 negotiations went off pretty easily. The only holdup would be any songs that belonged to a company that weren't on Season 1 or 2.
The rights to sync a song to video are essentially an open negotiation. And in the end, a publisher has the rights to deny that sync license for any reason.
To simplify large projects like these, the fairest way to handle it is to enter into what is called a "Favored Nations" agreement. Disney goes to each publisher and says "We want to use your song, we're working out a rate, it will be around this much, but every song on the release will get paid exactly the same. No one song is worth more than the others"
MOST people are fine with this, and it really is the fairest way to do it. The problem comes when you get down to the end, and you've got one or two people saying "my song is worth more than what you're offering, you have to pay us more" which means you're faced with either paying everyone more, or dropping the song.
The reason some companies may be holding out for more money, is that Disney probably can't offer as much as they are used to getting..
If a movie has 3 songs, and costs $20... there is a lot more money to go around than a release like this which has probably 60+ songs and costs $35.
Everybody has to compromise to see this thing out properly. Season 1, Disney proved that they were will to drop songs of people who didn't play fair. Season 2 went off well. There are only so many major publishing companies, so odds are Season 3 negotiations went off pretty easily. The only holdup would be any songs that belonged to a company that weren't on Season 1 or 2.
