Yep I still remember Peggy Lee vs. Disney when I was a kid. She was paid to do the voice of one of the female dogs in "Lady and the Tramp" but there was no such thing as VHS much less DVD media back then. Of course when Disney brought "Lady and the Tramp" out on VHS but didn't give a share of the profits to Peggy Lee as one of the voice actors she took them to court. I think the court found in her favor too.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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
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