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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

Residuals do not work like YOUR job's pay works. Period. No comparison.

You seem not to know that people get paid less [i]up front[/i] on the understanding that they will then be paid residuals over time, in amounts based on things like how much a show is viewed. They are not making a big wad of cash up front and then residuals are extra goodies on top of that. Residuals are part of the compensation they're owed for the work. Imagine if your job paid you a much smaller amount up front then said, we'll pay you the rest we owe you, dribbled out in tiny checks over a long, long time, IF the thing you built is still working well for us in a year, two years, five years....That's the deal. It sucks. It benefits only the studios and streamers, who then turn around and say, "Oh, that show isn't getting many eyeballs on streaming, here's  a check for 15 cents, sorry!" And 15 cents is not an exaggeration for effect, PP. Many, many residual checks are for pennies. Often that's based on streamers claiming shows aren't being watched. Guess what? Old-school "TV ratings" [i]don't really exist for most streaming[/i] so the streamers can just make up whatever they want about a show's "success" and no one can challenge them.

This is also why some streamers have pulled shows off entirely and won't show them at all. The streamers now don't want to pay anyone involved any of the owed residuals, so they've yanked less-known shows from all streaming. Gone. Max (HBO) did this just recently. So, how would you like it if even your tiny dribble of the remainder of your pay ended completely, and you'd never see the rest of your compensation, because your old bosses stowed your work product in a vault [i]just to avoid paying you?[/i]

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DP here, trying to understand how this works. Aren't the studios afraid that writers will simply leave the field and there won't be anyone left to write for the shows? I just don't see how this gets resolved in a way that's good for either side if writers take on all the risk of not getting compensated.

To give an example, I used to do a lot of proposal writing. Compensation was done one of two ways:

1) An hourly rate for my expertise as an independent consultant. Company takes on all the risk and keeps all profits if they win the contract. 
2) A salary as an employee of the company, plus a percentage of profits for the contracts I helped to win. The risk is split between me and the company. I had the opportunity to make a lot of money, but someone who's not very good wouldn't see the extra money.

I apologize if I'm missing something. Just struggling here to see how this gets resolved in a sustainable way. [/quote]AI will replace lots of writing jobs. They will be able to have a whole movie script be printed out in 20 minutes. [/quote]

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