Thread: A few movie terms (Кто-нибудь работал в кино?)

Originally Posted by translationsnmru

Thanks for the reply, Dillen, although it's a bit belated...

After doing some more research, I tend to believe that Program clearance executive is a person who obtains an agreement from a TV company/station to air the show that is being produced. In TV producers' lingo, "to clear a program (or show)" means just that.

Clearance associate, on the other hand, is (most likely) a person who handles things like obtaining permissions to use copyrighted works and such.

I feel like I should get an award for bringing up such an OLD thread!!! However I was searching for something else and found this one and it was actually timely!

translationsnmru, Yes, your final answer is correct. When I looked up the lady in question and saw her credits, she worked almost exclusively for Weird Al and as he is a parodist, using other artists songs and changing the lyrics, he probably hired her to obtain permission from all of the artists.

Now, here is where the timely part comes in, Throbert McGee, posted the other day about Weird Al and his Lady Gaga parody. This was in the news back in April as at first Weird Al did NOT have permission to do the song, but then it turned out it was all a misunderstanding and Lady Gaga had never said no and loved the song, here is an article about the mixup. 'Weird Al' Yankovic gets permission to 'perform this way' after Lady Gaga dustup - latimes.com

Originally Posted by rockzmom

I feel like I should get an award for bringing up such an OLD thread!!! However I was searching for something else and found this one and it was actually timely!

Rockzmom, sorry for having missed your reply. I just didn't see it when it was posted. Thanks a lot!