You dirty pirate you...

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by jaguar

Artists get screwed on royalties both though nonpayment and obscene contracts...

I heard the creator of the Spiderman character on the radio the other day. Seems he's in a tiff with Hollywood over his share of the Spiderman I and II takes. They are trying to screw him over. And I've heard this so many times from so many different people.

BUT, I think, at some point, that folks (artists, creators, etc.) need to stop entering into contracts that relate the payment to profit. Profit is a slippery number and people should start using gross revenue as the basis. I learned that lesson a long time ago. Hollywood is legendary for lying about their profit. Gross revenue, on the other hand, is very hard to fudge.