Re: (News) WGA authorizes strike if neccesary.


"Josh Hill" <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:02:30 -0500, "Carl" <cengman7@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:06:07 -0500, "Carl" <cengman7@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21386389/

Hollywood writers vote to authorize strike
Guild's contract expires Oct. 31; union, studios at odds over
residuals

I thought the studios backed off of that issue a few days ago.
That's what was reported anyway.

There are multiple issues about residuals, as the above cited
article explains. As it mentions, it was the "profit first"
one that the studios dropped.


Yes, I was only commenting on that one. I saw in the other thread
that this was discussed, so it's old information.

I'm not even sure what the studio was thinking when they came up with
that
item.

I would have thought that the first time they tried to pay a writer
under
that type of agreement they would have been taken to court and their
books
and accounting practices would be laid out like a gutted trout. They'd
eventually have to conform to a set of accounting rules imposed on them
from
the outside, and I doubt they would have cared for that idea.

Well, you'd think so, but the studios regularly cheat others with that
arrangement, as do the record companies. Why they aren't all in jail
for fraud is something I've never understood.

--
Josh

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals.
We know now that it is bad economics." - Franklin D. Roosevelt


I was just suggesting that if they actually got what they asked for,
the courts would probably make them conform to an accounting
system they wouldn't like.

AFAIK, that doesn't happen. I think there have been occasional
lawsuits, but for the most part the studios and record companies get
off scot free.

I had this idea that under those circumstances it might be forced on the
studios.
A fair accounting system would be good for everyone except the studios.




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