Comments on: AMPTP Settles with the Director’s Guild after only six days http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/01/18/amptp-settles-with-the-directors-guild-after-only-six-days/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:14:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grasshopper http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/01/18/amptp-settles-with-the-directors-guild-after-only-six-days/comment-page-1/#comment-22333 Grasshopper Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:30:43 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/01/18/amptp-settles-with-the-directors-guild-after-only-six-days/#comment-22333 Right on, Sean! I totally agree. Knowing many a person who isn't able to watch their favorite shows due to work/life schedules...and too broke to have TiVo or cable DVR...so they watch their favorite shows online. Seems to me the writers are entitled to payment for those airings just as much as they are for the shows on tv. If money is dished out for re-runs (which we all know it is), then the re-airing of a show online seems blatantly deserving of payment. Go writers! Right on, Sean! I totally agree.

Knowing many a person who isn’t able to watch their favorite shows due to work/life schedules…and too broke to have TiVo or cable DVR…so they watch their favorite shows online. Seems to me the writers are entitled to payment for those airings just as much as they are for the shows on tv. If money is dished out for re-runs (which we all know it is), then the re-airing of a show online seems blatantly deserving of payment. Go writers!

]]> By: SeanPAune.com » Blog Archive » WGA and AMPTP prepare to resume talks http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/01/18/amptp-settles-with-the-directors-guild-after-only-six-days/comment-page-1/#comment-22332 SeanPAune.com » Blog Archive » WGA and AMPTP prepare to resume talks Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:19:42 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/01/18/amptp-settles-with-the-directors-guild-after-only-six-days/#comment-22332 [...] Sean P Aune: Shari - Actually, there are several cases where the writers [...] [...] Sean P Aune: Shari – Actually, there are several cases where the writers [...]

]]> By: Sean P Aune http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/01/18/amptp-settles-with-the-directors-guild-after-only-six-days/comment-page-1/#comment-22295 Sean P Aune Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:08:50 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/01/18/amptp-settles-with-the-directors-guild-after-only-six-days/#comment-22295 Shari - Actually, there are several cases where the writers were asked to write "promotional" material for the web, something writers typically do for free because they are ads. When the "promos" went online, they were found to have ads sold to run with them. The best known case of this was <em>The Office</em> minisodes. So some of the instances are cases where the writers got paid absolutely nothing while the studios collected advertising revenue. Shari – Actually, there are several cases where the writers were asked to write “promotional” material for the web, something writers typically do for free because they are ads. When the “promos” went online, they were found to have ads sold to run with them. The best known case of this was The Office minisodes. So some of the instances are cases where the writers got paid absolutely nothing while the studios collected advertising revenue.

]]> By: Shari http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/01/18/amptp-settles-with-the-directors-guild-after-only-six-days/comment-page-1/#comment-22294 Shari Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:46:25 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/01/18/amptp-settles-with-the-directors-guild-after-only-six-days/#comment-22294 To be fair, the writers are getting paid for their work. When they write, they draw a salary (whether a show tanks or is a success). This is about getting a continuing income stream from the work they were already paid for. That is not to say that they may or may not deserve that continuing income stream (as director's are getting it and actors often do), but rather that it's misleading to indicate that they are demanding to be paid for the work they do as it implies they currently are not being paid. To be fair, the writers are getting paid for their work. When they write, they draw a salary (whether a show tanks or is a success). This is about getting a continuing income stream from the work they were already paid for. That is not to say that they may or may not deserve that continuing income stream (as director’s are getting it and actors often do), but rather that it’s misleading to indicate that they are demanding to be paid for the work they do as it implies they currently are not being paid.

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