On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:41:42 -0500, Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In article <en01j3lj8ea51051vf7kj41nk827av9m2s@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Rob Jensen <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> 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.
> Yes it is. Isn't new copies of THEIR product which is the writing
>that went into the original TV show, movie or whatever. The autoworker
>makes the cars that is THEIR product. So, if the automakers got a cut of
>the same car sold multiple times, then the worker could get a cut of the
>downstream revenues, assuming contract language.
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>> 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.
>
> See above for the reasons it isn't..
Authors get royalties on every *new* copy of every book that is sold
in a bookstore, regardless of printing number. In that respect,
syndication is another edition -- paperback to the original airings'
hardcover and each successive rerun cycle on television is a new
printing of each episode. Similarly, DVD is another format of
transmission of new editions of the product, same as
books-on-tape/books on CD, as are downloading and streaming -- they
are ALL new printings of the same product, not used editions.
Meanwhile, your auto analogy breaks down due to the sheer number of
people involved in auto manufacturing -- their royalties are their
pension funds and bonuses, both of which the auto manufacturers (and
similarly, the airlines) have so gutted in an Enron-like way that they
have handed off the pension funds to the US Government.
Your analogy of writing with auto manufacturing is essentially
comparing apples and corn flakes. Both are gathered by people, both
are delivered by people and both are consumed by people. Pay scales
are totally different due to fundamental, irreconcilable differences
in the products.
-- Rob
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