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February 13, 2008

Why the strike resolution blows for studios and writers

Female Jackie D | Category: TV • Web
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Mike Masnick:

There's a reason why most businesses work with pay-for-hire arrangements rather than royalties. It makes the process much more efficient and allows the company producing the product to have more flexibility in trying to sell the product. While it may seem like a victory for the writers, by limiting what mainstream content producers can do to adapt to the internet, it merely opens up more opportunity for others to route around this deal and do something more innovative, leaving the big studios that employ these writers in the dust.
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That reminds me of something Megan McArdle said about GM and the UAW a couple days ago:

"The company and the union are like two skydivers trying to share a small parachute--locked in each other's arms as they hurtle to their death, because neither wants to be the one to let go."

Comment by Arf Arf Arf on February 13, 2008 9:48 PM

*sniff*... the poor multi-million dollar corporations...

Comment by pete on February 14, 2008 9:54 AM

That wasn't the point, Pete - I don't exactly have a lot of love for the studios. But the writers and studios, much as they oppose one another, are just hastening their own misfortune and calling it victory. Everyone in Hollywood is an ignorant asshole, basically (apart from my friends there, of course!).

Comment by Jackie on February 14, 2008 11:27 AM