Re: Strike

Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 

> 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.

That analogy doesn't hold water. For it to do so, the WGA would have
to be insisting on residuals from the sale of used DVDs (which are
"trading hands again, down the road"). But they aren't. DVDs and
on-line downloads are *new* copies, not old copies.

The problem here is that there's no exact analogy to the car industry.
Because the entertainment industry is about selling *copies* of
something in several different media, not about selling the same
copy again and again.

The writer would be the equivalent of a car *designer*. I wouldn't
be surprised if a car designer *does* get some sort of residual
payment on each "copy" sold.

-- jayembee