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

The Writers Guildstrikelanguishes on : Heroes terminate for the year next week . In a tender to endour suffering , the producers ’ trade group has made a “ innovational ” offer to the Writers Guild , bombastically titled the “ New Economic Partnership . ” The deal ’s a mind - screw up less - than $ 250 flavourless fee for an hour - long show to be re - broadcast on the cyberspace for up to a year . If you recall , internet distribution ’s form of thesticking pointand writers need for 2.5 percent of the “ distributor ’ complete gross . ” lease us count the ways writers get screw by the manufacturer ’ Scrooge - y offer .

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Ars taper out that the right way now writers deplume about four to six cents a DVD , so a two - million seller will bring them between $ 80,000 and $ 120,000 on a claim raking in millions for the studio apartment . Even though it ’s a less - than - stellar trade , at least it descale . The $ 250 flat internet re - distribution payment and posit $ 1300 for 15 minutes of internet - only message does n’t , which is a job in a yoke of ways .

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For one , these contracts are in station for a long prison term — when the initial wad regarding DVD sales were made , DVD was n’t very grownup . In today ’s climate , they ’re studio ’ with child hard currency Bos taurus , and writers get the short end of the stick . This deal would put away them into the same rate for internet dispersion and cognitive content , no matter how big unexampled media gets , and it ’s obviouslygoing to be huge , so they ’re standing to get screwed even intemperately here .

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On a smaller musical scale , it stand for no matter how many clicks — and therefore ad dollars — a television drew , writer would still get the same tiny compensation . The guild ’s going over this “ proposal ” until Tuesday , when talks resume , but our feeling is that you better have a hard love for reruns , reality TV or YouTube . [ Ars Technica ]

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