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?
Angel: Eve. So, I guess we should, I don't know, talk? Eve: About what? Angel: About what happened back there with us. Eve: Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.
'Life of the Party'
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 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
§ 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?
Kristen - Nov 02, 2007 2:35:36 pm PDT #7356 of 10001
Oddly, I want a picture of Tim and Kristen picketing with their blank signs.
I'm pretty sure our signs will have actual words on them.
I just hope they're flame retardant. I'd hate to light a cigarette and turn into the human torch. Though, hey, I'd totally make the evening news.
Rick - Nov 02, 2007 3:04:39 pm PDT #7357 of 10001
I just hope they're flame retardant. I'd hate to light a cigarette and turn into the human torch. Though, hey, I'd totally make the evening news.
Oh, the Humanity!!
Kevin - Nov 02, 2007 3:49:42 pm PDT #7358 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
so the money I pay to iTunes goes... where?
The deals aren't public, but NBC (and, I think, 20th Century Fox) recently claimed Apple takes 50%. The studio takes the rest. The writers are getting seriously fucked by the existing deals, which were (obviously) put together before this technology even existed.
sarameg - Nov 02, 2007 4:03:38 pm PDT #7359 of 10001
Someone go stand by Kristen with a fire extinguisher! We wanna keep her!
sarameg - Nov 02, 2007 4:04:05 pm PDT #7360 of 10001
Oooh, or misters like outdoor restaurants have!
Juliebird - Nov 02, 2007 4:23:58 pm PDT #7361 of 10001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I don't see how an existing deal (existing before such things as iTunes) can even begin to apply to present day distribution.
On perhaps a related note, how do inventors working for a company make out on a new product that the company I believe then owns the intellectual rights to, does the original inventor get residuals on all sales of the product?