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Originally Posted by gastan
This small portion of your post seems to be the gist of your thoughts, that writers should be paid over and over and over and over and ...... over for one piece of work. Who knew?
I was a cabinet/furniture maker/finish carpenter before I retired. I should go back and demand a payment for every time someone sits in a chair I made or uses a drawer in a cabinet I made and installed, huh? I could be retired in luxury instead of merely in a pedestrian, respectable fashion.
Someone hires you to do a job, you do it, you get paid for it, you move on to the next job.
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It depends upon the job that you're doing, and what payment has normally been.
In broadcast TV, a show will almost certainly be shown more than once, and will generate revenue in the form of advertising from each showing. Subsequent showings and the revenue thus generated are called residuals. The actors appearing in the show expect to get additional revenue beyond the original salary for appearing, and writers who wrote the show expect likewise.
You can argue that they should
not get additional payments, but historically, they
have, and the content producers have been trying to reduce or eliminate them, to reduce costs and add to their bottom line. Needless to say, the affected groups are fighting back hard to prevent this, as it's an attempt to take away something they had previously gotten. (And acting and script writing are
not secure sources of income. For many folks in the trade, residuals are an important component of their income. Take away residuals, and they drop from "middle class" to "poverty stricken".)
Thinks about when you were still an active cabinet maker. How would you have felt about attempts to
reduce what you got paid for doing a particular job you had done before for a higher rate?
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Dennis