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Started by johnlilly · 10 months ago

looks like the writers’ guild strike is happening. i think my most basic emotion is that i’m strangely sort of happy about it — not about the economic impact on the writers, which is not good at all, but i’m happy that i don’t *have%2 ... Continue reading »

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  • Adam Nash

    1 year ago

    I'm curious about this quote in particular:

    "in other words, not letting them share fairly in the proceeds from the distribution of their work"

    I'm having a hard time rationalizing the difference in compensation for writers of media content and software engineers. Do you think writers would be more fairly paid with salary & stock options, or do you think software engineers should be entitled to residuals on the ongoing sales/profits from the code they write?

    Both are situations where creative experts create copyrighted material that is signed over to the corporation based on employment.

    I'm having trouble rationalizing the two of them.
    Adam
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  • John

    1 year ago

    yeah, i don't really know. i think that participation in upside is basically the important key. as i get older, i find myself siding more and more often with "labor" in arguments. in this particular case, as a pure consumer, i enjoy what the writers do more than any other actor in the value chain, so i'd like to see them compensated.
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