Re: Strike

"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:52:33 -0700, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
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>>Still not a good analogy.  They want additional money for the SAME car
>>when it trades hands again, down the road, whether there's a profit
>>involved or not.
>
> No, they don't.  They want (and deserve) the royalties they deserve
> for the printing of new copies of the existing product (and ALL
> transmissions through Downloads or streaming are inherently new
> printings of the given work as they are new reproductions) ala the
> royalties on books and music.
>
> Face it, the used car analogy breaks down the moment anybody tries to
> drive it out of the garage, Ani.

Or another way to look at it: you write a book and a publisher prints it. 
Later, the publisher decides to release it as an e-book. Shouldn't you get
a 
share of that money? Furthermore, let's say you're getting 10% of the
print 
price and the publisher gets 90%. The publisher has costs involved that
eat 
up 80% with print. But with e-printing he may only have costs of 20% or 
less. Does the publisher deserve to get all that remaining 70% for doing 
nothing but releasing your work in a new way? And what if it turns out the

publisher makes more money--possibly through a deliberate effort--through 
the e-book than the print?

The strike is simply a way to get fair wages and adjust to new
technologies. 
It should also allow the construction of pay models that will work for 
direct-to-web broadcasts.

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