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No, it's like a business hiring a contractor to create a shovel and paying him regardless of whether or not they will be successful in selling that shovel. After the business has paid him every penny of what he has earned while working for them, he leaves he wants money for every shovel sold and now he is fighting to get more money for every hole dug using one of those shovels.
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If I buy a painting, should I send a check to the artist every time I look at it? Of course not. Could I make a deal like that? I could, but I'd be an idiot to do that and I shouldn't be forced or coerced into doing it by a bunch of painters picketing outside my house.
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The studios are gambling on the talent of the writers and paying them handsomely up front. They aren't making residual deals in case the show is a flop. Every single producer in Hollywood would jump at the chance to pay the writer once up front and never give them a cut of residual income.
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Writers are not paid well. From here: "According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual salary of a scriptwriter is $44,350." (Keep in mind that these are Los Angeles and New York salaries.) Quote:
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But to answer your questions: If a company expects there to be full-time computer consultants available for hire when they need them, then they must expect to pay them what their time is worth, including the downtime during which they are unable to do other jobs because they are remaining available to be computer consultants. An industry can demand the salaries it requires to stay functioning as an industry, just as an individual business demands the prices it requires to be able to pay the rent and continue selling items at all. Meanwhile, the painting analogy is completely off-base unless you are charging other people to view your copy of the painting. In which case, the painter will undoubtedly charge you much more money for it up front, because the painting is by definition worth more as a revenue stream. Quote:
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The biggest pool of writing talent can't come up with anything more original than remakes of crappy 70s tv shows?
The best writers don't write for television at all. They write novels. As far as missing the shows I like goes, for every show that is good, there are 100 that suck hairy balls
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Log in as Terminator and tell us "how Terminator feels" about this.
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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And your argument is that, contracts be damned, they shouldn't have even gotten that pittance.
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The shovel is the product someone was paid to design. They don't own the shovel factory. They don't own the design for the shovel. They were paid to design a shovel. Even assuming they do own the design for the shovel and license it to the company, they would be paid once for each shovel sold. Digging a hole is the use of the shovel.
It's unreasonable for the shovel designer to expect to be paid while designing the shovel, then paid again for each shovel sold, and again for each use of the shovel. The writers are paid WELL to write the script, and they are paid residuals for each time it is aired on television, now they want to be paid each time someone looks at it on the internet. It's unreasonable.
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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And why are television airings and DVDs shovels, while a download is a hole?
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