The strike is on. It's going to be a weird winter.
Oddly, I want a picture of Tim and Kristen picketing with their blank signs.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Allyson - Nov 02, 2007 12:34:41 pm PDT #7346 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2007 1:19:25 pm PDT #7347 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The strike fascinates me. I just wish I wasn't being fascinated at anyone's expense.
Does the other side (and who are they?) explain why writers should continue to be compensated so differently?
Juliebird - Nov 02, 2007 1:24:04 pm PDT #7348 of 10001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
The article linked somewhere here stated that (I paraphrase) "with the fluctuation of the new technologies that can distribute the merchandise that may simply be passing trends" there wasn't a point in adjusting the percentage the writers get. Which sounds like bull. I haven't found any other reasons as of yet.
Juliebird - Nov 02, 2007 1:24:07 pm PDT #7349 of 10001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
nothing to see here...
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2007 1:29:06 pm PDT #7350 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's just odd, the discrepancy.
Juliebird - Nov 02, 2007 1:30:20 pm PDT #7351 of 10001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Follow the money.
Allyson - Nov 02, 2007 1:32:24 pm PDT #7352 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
The claim is that there isn't any revenue from new media (iTunes and the like). So the puzzling thing is, if there isn't any revenue, and the writers are asking for 2.5% of any revenue from new media...then 2.5% of nothing is nothing...so why deny them?
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2007 1:33:45 pm PDT #7353 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And other people are getting *their* slice of zero.
Daisy Jane - Nov 02, 2007 1:33:48 pm PDT #7354 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
"Lesse. Take nothin' add nothin' carry the nothin"
Juliebird - Nov 02, 2007 1:38:25 pm PDT #7355 of 10001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
The claim is that there isn't any revenue from new media (iTunes and the like
so the money I pay to iTunes goes... where?