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$250 Flat Fee Producers Offer Writers Guild for Internet Distribution Is Way Lame, Still Screws Writers

The Writers Guild strike languishes on: Heroes ends for the year next week. In a bid to end our suffering, the producers' trade group has made a "groundbreaking" offer to the Writers Guild, grandiosely titled the "New Economic Partnership." The deal's a mind-blowing less-than $250 flat fee for an hour-long show to be re-broadcast on the internet for up to a year. If you recall, internet distribution's sort of the sticking point and writers asked for 2.5 percent of the "distributors' gross revenue." Let us count the ways writers get screwed by the producers' Scrooge-y offer. More »

6:30 PM on Fri Nov 30 2007
By Matt Buchanan
5,676 views, 40 comments

Latest by Kered: @Clammy42: Your response is exactly what I was looking for and exactly what I was getting at, thank you! These more »

The Writers Guild of America strike is officially on, thanks largely to disputes over payments from DVD sales and content delivered through the intertubes. [NYT]

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Digital Distribution Tangling Up Writers Guild of America Talks, Strike Looms

In case you were unawares, the contract between Hollywood producers and the Writers Guild of America was supposed to expire a few hours ago, leading to a possible strike, meaning bad things could happen. One of the major issues is digital content and distribution—after getting screwed over by the terms of how they were paid from video and DVD, set many moons ago, they're leery of losing out on tons of cash yet again. Since a multitude of content is going online in an infinitude of formats—web-exclusive content, full episode replays, ARG, etc. on network websites, iTunes and the works—the terms are inevitably just as complicated. Right now, writers only get coin if a viewer pays to see the goods, making ad-supported Hulu, for instance, a black hole for them no matter how many users tune in. More »

3:15 AM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By Matt Buchanan
3,273 views, 18 comments

Latest by axiomatic: Come on guys, I know that upping the writers salaries will not make them better writers. But we can't ignore more »