TV Show/Movie Crew Who Don't Get Credit

In My Humble Opinion
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This may be more of a legal question…and I don’t mean they don’t get a shout out for working on the show during the opening credits.

This press release announces a licensing agreement between McCall Pattern Company and Sony Pictures to release sewing patterns based on the Starz show Outlander, which is based on Diana Gabaldon’s books.

If you read the press release, nowhere does it name the genius behind the costume department, Terry Dresbach. (She’s married to executive producer Ron Moore, and they met while working on Carnivale.) She’s been talking some about it on Twitter, and it just seems to be the way things work.

How do costume designers not get credit when their creations are licensed? Are other crew in the same situation?

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Bump once. :frowning:

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You might have better response by having this moved to Cafe Society. Consult a Mod.

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Gene Gene the Dancing Machine was really an NBC stagehand for several years but only credited as such for “The Gong Show”. He worked on “The Tonight Show” as well; Johnny even had him on camera a couple of times.

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I work in theater building sets. Sometimes shows move lock, stock, and barrel to another theater, and the designer(s) gets another fee without doing any new work, and the craftspeople who built the scenery, or sewed the costumes don’t get paid again! So it sometimes works the other way. depends on the contract. Anyway, she probably got paid a licensing fee whether she got the credit or not.