#DARIA RESTORATION PROJECT DEMONOID SERIES#
As I Googled around for more information, I could see many other fans of the series felt the same, opining that, "when I watch the show without proper music it feels as though one of the main characters is missing," and "even to those who say they didn't pay much attention to the music, I think you'll still sense an absence." Then I stumbled across something else entirely. So no, these aren't the shows as aired, but more like one of those astronauts in a TWILIGHT ZONE episode who returns from space and his wife can't figure out what's changed about him, until it slowly dawns on her that instead of a cool song from 1997 playing when he walks into the room, it's some tune she's never heard. "So let's answer the big question right away: 99 percent of the music has been changed, because the cost of licensing the many music bites we used would have made it impossible to release the collection (and for many years did). When I opened up the DVD case, however, I was greeted with the following message:įor those who can't see the note, it says in the pertinent part: The show had an immense impact on my childhood, in no small part because of how it helped frame pop culture for me with its liberal use of MTV-placed contemporary music, and I was incredibly excited to relive that experience. I recently picked up a DVD collection of Daria, one of the last good things MTV ever produced. What's interesting, however, is how we've seen the Internet step up to effectuate cultural preservation, when copyright law stands in the way. Often, the only way to get the work back in the public's hands is to perform triage, excise the no-longer-licensed content, and try to be happy with a bastardized version of the work (see: WKRP in Cincinnati, The State). This is much more culturally pernicious because it deprives the public of a work already in its lexicon, and the sense of loss is far more palpable as a result. However, other times a work is created with the initial blessing of copyright, makes its mark on the public, then becomes effectively censored down the line due to licensing restrictions (see: The Wonder Years, Werewolf). While this unfortunately turns judges into cultural gatekeepers, it's been deemed a necessary balance between copyright law and the First Amendment, and harm to the public is arguably lessened by the fact that we don't know what we're missing because the censored work is never able to reach and impact us, we've only lost the potential of its cultural contribution. Sometimes this censorship comes about because an author didn't get permission to create his work in the first place (see: Richard Prince, JD California). One of the things I've never liked about copyright is its potential to be the functional equivalent of censorship.
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