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Writers Guild Strike
KvP:
Eisner sez Strike is kaput, to be made official on Saturday.
Lines:
Yay! I hope they got as close as they could to what they wanted.
Alex C:
Rather unlikely; one of the most contentious points was internet revenue. To make a long story short, nobody can project anything about how internet revenue will pan out yet, so how can anyone really make an equitable deal yet? Nobody knows anything yet, and everyone accepted that except for the stupid Writer's Guild. The Actor & Director guilds agreed to a short term deal in which the internet revenue topic would be revisted shortly once things started to get a bit clearer while the Writer's Guild basically said "Nuh-uh! You're holdin' out on us!" threw a highly public tantrum and then were dumb enough to be surprised when the production companies didn't feel like signing away an as of yet unknown quantity of cash for the foreseeable future. I mean, I hope they get the money they deserve and all, but even coming from a family with a pretty strong pro-Union background I think they're a bunch of dorks.
Dizzydes:
What are you on about!!!? have you ever watched anything on the internet? i used to watch colbert report on comedy centrals online service and for about 5 minutes of show there was at least one ad and your couldn't skip it, so we know exactly how internet revenue is going to pan out, as the younger generations who are pretty much wired to a computer at all times get older and form the majority of the population, more and more people will watch stuff on the internet instead of on the television. also on demand video is pretty much what everybody wants, scheduled programming is in its last decades, and current tv setup doesn't offer particularly good on demand services.
Ozymandias:
Yeah, I'm sorry, I don't buy the "we don't know how it will pan out" argument.
A percentage or revenue is equitable no matter how it pans out. If there's no profit in the internet, it doesn't matter. If there is, they get paid for the work they did.
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