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Longtime Microsoft insider Raymond Chen has returned with another cracking anecdote from the days of Windows 95. His latest blog post concerns the fun freebies packaged alongside the OS to showcase Windows 95's multimedia capabilities—turns out, Weezer's Buddy Holly music video presented a tricky rights situation before it was cleared for inclusion.
For those not old and wizened like me, Weezer's Buddy Holly music video is a loving homage to Happy Days, an American sitcom steeped in 50's nostalgia which ran from 1974 to 1984. Clips from the show are interspersed and cleverly blended with more contemporaneous footage of the band performing in their sweet little cardigans.
It's a neat effect for sure, but it meant that Microsoft didn't just have to get the rights to just the song audio. The company also had to seek the permission of every on-screen Happy Days actor before they could legally redistribute the music video—including, most prominently, Henry Winkler of Arthur 'The Fonz' Fonzarelli fame.
Source: PC Gamer
