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Re: Official WGA Writers Strike thread.
and from John August
* Writers get royalties: for books, for songs, for literary works. * 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. * The studios and the WGA disagree about what rate is fair for work distributed over the internet. * Since internet distribution will eventually replace DVDs, a bad rate would result in a pay cut for writers. * That’s why there’s a strike. |
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