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Sometimes occurs because [[Disney Owns This Trope]]. See also [[Writing Around Trademarks]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* Even ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek TOS]]'' had this problem. Non-original copyrighted music was used exactly once ("Goodnight, Sweetheart" in "The City on the Edge of Forever"), and was replaced with a sound-alike on the VHS releases. The rights were obtained for the DVD releases.
* Frequent in reruns of ''[[SCTV]]'' because the producers didn't bother to clear rights for any of the music they used. Sketches with unusable songs were either cut or edited into incomprehensibility, such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpdTftVA8L4 "Cooking with Prickley"], a large portion of which is simply fast-forwarded through Edith's singing.
* The producers of both ''[[My So
* The ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark]]'' episode "The Tale of the Prom Queen" originally had "In The Still of the Night" by The Five Satins played during the final scene, but it was removed in the DVD release, obviously due to copyright issues. In ''The Tale of C7'' <ref> The one where a family moves into a house that has a jukebox that summons a dead soldier who loved the song and played it for his girlfriend</ref>, the C7 tune was originally "Save The Last Dance for Me", but it too was replaced with generic music on the DVD.
* The first few season's of ''Newton's Apple'' used Kraftwerk's "Ruckzuck" as their theme tune, but the video releases replaced it with a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version.
* ''[[In Living Color]]'''s DVD releases have a lot of sketches either edited to remove song references or music video parodies (often serving as the show's cold opening) removed, along with a Men on Film sketch edited to remove a reference to Richard Gere being gay (along with a [[Prison Rape]] joke) and a commercial parody of Colt 45 that, according to FOX's [[Media Watchdogs]], [[Black Comedy Rape|made light of date rape]] (Billy Dee Williams [Keenan Ivory Wayans] forces his date to drink until she passes out, then [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma|moves in to have sex with her unconscious body]])
* ''[[All That]]'' airs on [[The 90s Are All That]] without the musical guest performances. Since this necessitates the additional removal of sketches introducing the guest, and the cast saying goodbye onstage after the song, several episodes end abruptly.
* The first DVD releases of ''[[Lost in Austen]]'' had to cut the part where Amanda sings "Downtown" for the Bingleys and Darcy because the rights hadn't been acquired. The joke that Bingley makes about "going downtown" immediately after made no sense without the song. Later releases reinstated the song.
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* 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.
* A variation of this happened to [[Mr Bungle]] on their first, self-titled album. The lead song was to be called [[John Travolta (Creator)|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 (Franchise)|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
* 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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