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* The English dub of ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' replaces The Ronettes' "Be My Baby" with a generic instrumental in The Baby's introduction, removing the subtle joke that the neo-Nazi is a fan of a multi-racial group.
** Again the source of this is the Japanese company over music distribution, so VIZ had to compensate for the missing tracks.
* In a quite odd edit, the home release versions of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]: The Second Raid'' changed some of the music from the broadcast version, including removing an instance of the opening theme being used as an insert song in episode 13, replacing it with generic battle music instead.
* ''[[Lupin III|Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo]]'' had, in its original theatrical release, a short shot of Lupin hanging out with Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and other DC superheroes. For obvious reasons, this would have been unacceptible to Time-Warner once the movie was released here in the US by Geneon, and so it was cut, even though it caused a noticeable break in a scene.
** In the same way, numerous real-world logos were digitally removed from the US release of the ''Lupin III'' TV series.
* ''[[Doctor Slump]]'' had numerous panels featuring [[Ultraman]] or [[Ultra Seven]] hastily re-touched to disguise just who the characters really were. Oddly enough, the Penguin Village cop who perpetually wears the [[Star Wars|Stormtrooper helmet, and the panel of Senbei and Arale dressed as C-3PO and R2-D2]], the [[Taxi Driver|panel of Senbei dressed as Travis Bickle,]] and the [[Star Trek|chapter with the very obvious story-long parody of Spock]], all apperarances/mentions of [[Godzilla]] or [[Gamera]], ''and'' [[Superman|the entire supporting character of "Suppaman"]] were left untouched.
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** The joke, [[Don't Explain the Joke|which refers]] to the preponderance of Wayne-generation novice guitarists who practiced by playing ''Stairway to Heaven'' to [http://www.guitarnoise.com/lesson/no-stairway/ the stereo ad nauseum], is lost on the international release version. Still, plenty of VHS copies of the U.S. version are still about.
{{quote|[[Fridge Brilliance|"No 'Stairway'...Denied!"]]}}
* The broadcast versions of ''[[Demolition Man]]'' remove all references to Taco Bell. Which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't a pretty huge joke in the movie with a full scene there.
* Completely and utterly averted in the classic Billy Wilder film ''One, Two, Three'', revolving around Jimmy Cagney as a Coca-Cola exec in West Berlin just before the rise of the Wall. [[Mommie Dearest|Joan Crawford]], at the time a major stockholder of Pepsi, was enraged by what she saw as blatant product placement, and demanded that Wilder use Pepsi in the film. He did — at the very end. Cagney's character puts a nickel (or at least a five-pfennig piece) into a Coke machine... and gets a bottle of Pepsi. He makes a disgusted mugging face at the camera as the movie ends.
* Some broadcast versions of ''[[Inspector Gadget (film)|Inspector Gadget]]'' cut out the shot of the Yahoo! billboard falling, as well as cutting the site's name out of the hero's next line.
* ''The Big Fix'' includes a lovely scene with Richard Dreyfuss preparing for a date, with Leon Redbone's "I Wanna Be Seduced" as the BGM. Sadly, for the VHS release the song had to be replaced with generic instrumental music. Fans assiduously record the movie every time it shows up on TCM, while holding out hope for a DVD release.
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** A full DVD release of [[Daria]] [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|did actually come out]].. without the background music.
* Because of the BBC's status as a public network, ''[[Top Gear]]'' is able to make extensive use of copyrighted music in its original airings. These are often removed in DVD releases and overseas broadcasts (where the rights are not as easy to secure).
* ITV's ''[[Police Camera Action]]'' did this to the 1996 episode "Road to Nowhere" - end music replaced by generic orchestra music, 2000 episode ''Getting Their Man'' (with Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" replaced by a cover version of Joe Loss's the Stripper). It was never explained why, and fans of the show are dissatisfied with this mutilation of the show by ITV executives. [[Executive Meddling]] at its worst, maybe... and probably [[Edited for Syndication]] without any justification.
* Many fans were worried that the 2010 reairing of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' would change the music for this reason, particularly the iconic theme song, which Disney hadn't gotten the rights to for Adam's reappearance in ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'', using generic rock for his theme when all the other reappearing Rangers got their own shows' theme songs. Thankfully, it turned out that Disney was actually contractually obligated to keep all the original music in the re-releases, so this was averted in the end.
** For the music, anyway - there are several points where company logos are blurred over (such as the names on the weights and the Nike swoosh on an extra's shoes in "A Pressing Engagement").
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* "Farewell to [[John Denver]]" (a very brief parody of "Annie's Song") was removed from ''[[Monty Python]]'s Contractual Obligation Album'' and replaced with Terry Jones saying that the item had been omitted for legal reasons.
* The Mountain Goats' "Jenny" mentions a Kawasaki - the official lyrics have the line as "on a new [motorcycle]".
* The title of Dada's "Dizz-Knee Land": You can probably guess what the song was originally going to be called.
* ''1987 (What The Fuck Is Going On?)'' by [[The KLF|The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu]] was pulled from the market due to having a massive amount of unauthorized [[Sampling|samples]]. In response, the band released ''1987 (The JAMs 45 Edits)'', which consisted of all of the original material from the album with long stretches of silence where the samples were. The liner notes cited what samples ''would'' have been there, and suggested the listener could use this information to replicate the original version of the album themselves. This edited version of the album had such a small amount of actual music on it that it was formally classified as a 12 inch single.
* Comedian/singer [[Tim Wilson]] recorded a song about a [[Suck E. Cheese's|bouncer at a Chuck E. Cheese's]]. To get the song on an album, he had to name it "Chucky Cheese H*ll" and put a warning on the album that the song was not approved by Chuck E. Cheese's.
* A variation of this happened to [[Mr Bungle]] on their first, self-titled album. The lead song was to be called [[John Travolta|Travolta]] after a line in the song, but Warner Bros. music made them change it at the last minute (which they did somewhat acidically, "Quote Unquote" after a line of legalese jargon the band was given on the situation).
* [[Sonic Youth]]'s ''Sister'' featured photo collage artwork on the front and back covers. Two of the images used had to be censored with large black bars for copyright reasons - one was an image of [http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/lp/lp05a.jpg a little girl in the upper left hand corner] of the front cover, the other was a photo of Disney's Magic Kingdom on the upper left hand corner of the back cover. A reissue of the album restores the Magic Kingdom picture on the back, sort of - [http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=885158 most of what would make it recognizable is obscured by a conveniently placed barcode].
* Goldfinger's cover of "99 Red Balloons" omitted the "[[Star Trek|Captain Kirk]]" verse, replacing it with the fourth verse of "99 Luftballons".(which was the basis for the English third verse)
* The Melvins' ''Lysol'' had to be changed to a [[Self-Titled Album]] at the last minute for reasons that should be readily apparent. The album artwork is where the trope comes in: to spare the expense of having to destroy existing copies and redesign the cover, their record label just put black tape over the album name on the front, and inked over the album name on the side. On early editions, the tape and ink were easily removed, and fans took to doing so with their own copies - later printings made this harder to do without damaging the cover. Even on current copies, the cover has a distinctive area of blank space where a title clearly ''should'' be.
* Dune's planned 2000 comeback album, ''Reunion'', was completely blocked from release due to a copyright lawsuit over just one song, "Heaven", which sounded [[Suspiciously Similar Song|a bit too similar]] to A7's "Piece of Heaven". You wonder why they didn't just remove the offending song.
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