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    @mike connelly said:

    2001 is an interesting case.  The existing classical music was originally a temp score and then the film was fully scored by Alex North but they decided to just keep the temp score.  North's unused score was recorded years later and I believe it's still available.

    Just curious Mike, does a composer usually get paid for his time if the score in the end is not used in a movie?  I assume that would be driven by a contract but is their a norm? 


  • I don't know for sure but I would assume they would be paid at least a partial fee.  With many parts of the film and TV industries the contracts have multiple stages of a project with parts of the payment sent out when each milestone is met.  I would think that composers would have something similar, but someone who does film scoring could clarify.


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