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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorT!M
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If all episodes of a TV show have a "Main Title Theme Song Written and Performed By" credit for the show's theme song, does that qualify for "Song Writer" or for "Theme By"?

I'm pretty sure that I already know the answer; I just need something to point the voters to...
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Theme.

Theme would be the "higher priority" as I see it.
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Theme.

Theme would be the "higher priority" as I see it.


Couldn't agree more or say it better.
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Theme.

Theme would be the "higher priority" as I see it.


Couldn't agree more or say it better.

Indeed.
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If all episodes of a TV show have a "Main Title Theme Song Written and Performed By" credit for the show's theme song, does that qualify for "Song Writer" or for "Theme by"?

Maybe both, but definitely Song Writer, if it is an original song written specifically for the film.
Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect]
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If all episodes of a TV show have a "Main Title Theme Song Written and Performed By" credit for the show's theme song, does that qualify for "Song Writer" or for "Theme by"?

Maybe both, but definitely Song Writer, if it is an original song written specifically for the film.


Have you read the question? It's the theme song for a TV show.
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I believe this was the purpose for which Theme By was added. Of course they are also song writers (duh) but that goes without saying, imo.
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Theme by, no question.
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Definitely theme
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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I believe this was the purpose for which Theme By was added. Of course they are also song writers (duh) but that goes without saying, imo.

Agreed on both counts.
No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
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Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar
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I believe this was the purpose for which Theme By was added. Of course they are also song writers (duh) but that goes without saying, imo.


Agreed, and one could argue that the theme is an "original song" only for the first episode.
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If all episodes of a TV show have a "Main Title Theme Song Written and Performed By" credit for the show's theme song, does that qualify for "Song Writer" or for "Theme by"?

Maybe both, but definitely Song Writer, if it is an original song written specifically for the film.

Have you read the question?

Yes.
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It's the theme song for a TV show.

Song, I know. TV Shows have Composers, why shouldn't they have Song Writers?
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Song, I know. TV Shows have Composers, why shouldn't they have Song Writers?

Nobody said they shouldn't, but if the credit is a variation of 'Theme by', that is the profiler credit we give them, not song writer.
No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar
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Sorry, bbbbb, you've misunderstood me. I was pointing out you were referencing a FILM situation - we're discussing a TV show theme.
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Song, I know. TV Shows have Composers, why shouldn't they have Song Writers?

Nobody said they shouldn't, but if the credit is a variation of 'Theme by', that is the profiler credit we give them, not song writer.

The initial post with emphasis on TV Shows and Show's Theme was misleading then.
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bbbbb, you've misunderstood me.

Really?
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I was pointing out you were referencing a FILM situation - we're discussing a TV show theme.

The Rules say Composer is only allowed when "Used for the composer of the FILM's Original Score".
Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect]
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