Why writers get residuals


	Why writers get residuals

bignosemousie

11-12-2007 10:52 AM

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writers, wga, strike, hollywood, residuals

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11-14-2007 11:02 PM

davboz

Sounds like they deserve their cut.
Look at the empty figures falling down without the substance of the writers.

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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Writers get royalties: for books, for songs, for literary works.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">For legal reasons, studios want to be considered the “author” of a movie. So screenwriters transfer “authorship” to the studios, in exchange for a bunch of rights, and residuals.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The studios and the WGA disagree about what rate is fair for work distributed over the internet.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Since internet distribution will eventually replace DVDs, a bad rate would result in a pay cut for writers.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">That’s why there’s a strike.</LI></UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/26E883BE-E1C7-4D88-8A42-F3349AED09A2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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