When will writers strike resolve?

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Anonymous wrote:Again, why do any of them deserve residuals? Most of us are paid for the work we do. If it’s successful after we move onto another job, we don’t get residuals.

But are you creating something your ex-employer will use for years to make themselves more money?

My sibling works in biomedical engineering. His employment contract states that his employer owns the rights to 99% of all outputs/ip created by him. He gets a small portion of compensation but I forget what type of compensation it is (money, stock, etc.). And I think then the 1% only kicks in if the ip is acquired for X price or X units.

DP here but why are they entitled to residuals? They didn't fund the project. Let them get paid for their work. It's hard to have sympathy for them if they want more than that.

They’re entitled because they’re creating intellectual property. Just like painters, engineers, and inventors. If some can be sold repeatedly (story, software, t-shirt design) the person who makes it gets some portion of that sale unless the sell the rights to someone else.

-engineer who gets the equivalent of residuals on the patents with my name on them from my employer

The painter only gets paid once. The buyer may make more on re-sale of the picture but the painter gets nothing.

+1 Maybe the compensation model needs to change.

Are you really arguing in favor of the studios over the little guys who actually created the content?

Do you get paid residuals for the work you do? Probably not. The writers should get paid more up front. The car companies invest in the production of their products, same for tv/movie studios.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, why do any of them deserve residuals? Most of us are paid for the work we do. If it’s successful after we move onto another job, we don’t get residuals.

But are you creating something your ex-employer will use for years to make themselves more money?

My sibling works in biomedical engineering. His employment contract states that his employer owns the rights to 99% of all outputs/ip created by him. He gets a small portion of compensation but I forget what type of compensation it is (money, stock, etc.). And I think then the 1% only kicks in if the ip is acquired for X price or X units.

DP here but why are they entitled to residuals? They didn't fund the project. Let them get paid for their work. It's hard to have sympathy for them if they want more than that.

They’re entitled because they’re creating intellectual property. Just like painters, engineers, and inventors. If some can be sold repeatedly (story, software, t-shirt design) the person who makes it gets some portion of that sale unless the sell the rights to someone else.

-engineer who gets the equivalent of residuals on the patents with my name on them from my employer

The painter only gets paid once. The buyer may make more on re-sale of the picture but the painter gets nothing.

+1 Maybe the compensation model needs to change.

Are you really arguing in favor of the studios over the little guys who actually created the content?

Do you get paid residuals for the work you do? Probably not. The writers should get paid more up front. The car companies invest in the production of their products, same for tv/movie studios.

The studios continue to make money off of people watching the writers’ content, so the writers should continue to make some of that money.

[Anonymous]

Drew Barrymore show - 3 writers refusing to come back due to her trying to come back before strike ended. I guess they must not be hurting after losing 5 months of pay. Shame on them, other crew members probably needed the money.

[Anonymous]

When will actors strike end? You would have thought that they would have been more unified to keep striking with SAG.

[Anonymous]

The 2007-08 one ran three months. This is the period in which a lot of the reality TV shows started to fill space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike