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Thanks for putting this video up.
Most writers are unemployed a lot of the time. The residuals are for reuse like song royalties. It is actually deferred pay - the studios don't ever like paying for anything upfront, so the writers get a tiny bit when ever their content is exploited. The corporations are trying to weasel out of that deal by claiming there is no money to be made on the new fangled internets (even though they stream content with commercials).
Residuals help writers survive. Only the top writers get paid well. Most writers are lucky to make 30k in a year.
And the dirty little secret of this part of corporate America, most writers develop new work for free. My husband goes to networks on behalf of studios and producers with pitches for shows - he develops original content, and takes their notes and reworks it, rehearses many hours and does a little dog and pony show - for FREE. Maybe the studios pay a bunch of lawyers some money to negotiate a deal IF the show sells - at least those billion dollar companies can still afford lawyers.
Most writers are unemployed a lot of the time. The residuals are for reuse like song royalties. It is actually deferred pay - the studios don't ever like paying for anything upfront, so the writers get a tiny bit when ever their content is exploited. The corporations are trying to weasel out of that deal by claiming there is no money to be made on the new fangled internets (even though they stream content with commercials).
Residuals help writers survive. Only the top writers get paid well. Most writers are lucky to make 30k in a year.
And the dirty little secret of this part of corporate America, most writers develop new work for free. My husband goes to networks on behalf of studios and producers with pitches for shows - he develops original content, and takes their notes and reworks it, rehearses many hours and does a little dog and pony show - for FREE. Maybe the studios pay a bunch of lawyers some money to negotiate a deal IF the show sells - at least those billion dollar companies can still afford lawyers.
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