Barbara Marigold

My understanding of this is that the TV stntaois pay a blanket fee every year to JASRAC to use any songs they want as incidental music. (As opposed to synchronized, which means they use it in the same way linked to the same video repeatedly.)Then JASRAC takes the money and distributes it however they want. Which seems crazy. What I have heard is that instead of figuring out which songs were actually used, they distribute it based on record sales. So every time Pizzicato Five is played on TV, that money goes to Hamasaki Ayumi instead.In this case, the producers just wanted to use Pink Floyd. I don't think there were economic incentives for them to do otherwise.