On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:09:48 -0500, Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>In article <unrvi3l6rr3u4opop56etn10dfo2a1n0qk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Rob Jensen <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Umm, no. The most appropriate analogy is that the writers, actors and
>> directors all get royalties for the same reasons that musicians and
>> novelists and other entertainment creators do -- to give them
>> incentives to create more work by paying them bonuses.
>>
> The autoworker analogy would only work if the automakers got a cut
>of the sale price of used cars. Since the Studios get multiple streams
>of revenue, the writers and other talent guilds want their part of the
>downstream money.
No, it isn't. Regarding DVD (and digital/streaming) residuals, they'd
be getting royalties on new copies of the product every time.
Syndication is not used cars, it's the same model year as the current
year, DVD sales are new product, streaming/downloading is always,
every single time new product.
The only time that used product is involved is DVDs that are traded
into Hastings and other chains that deal in trading of used product
and no one in Hollywood gets a share of that because, yes, those are
the ONLY used cars as far as your otherwise terrible, hideously
straw-man analogy goes.
-- Rob
--
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It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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