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[somedaybitch]

a federal negotiator was called in re the WGA strike and they're meeting now, apparently. :::crosses fingers::: does my timing suck, or what? oi.

i fully support the WGA and while i don't want a strike, and i honestly think hotheads are prevailing, if the WGA backs down now then writers in the future - and the other guilds - will be forever locked out. the producers are being dicks, imho, because they know it too. it's now or never for movement on dvd residuals and internet use and re-use. i don't want to be out of my lowly, non-union production assistant job, but the WGA needs to stand firm. i want to be where they are eventually, so they're fighting for me...and the roomie, and maksabem, and Jilly in Peoria with dreams of a feature.

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[lvp3.livejournal.com]

i read a few articles on all this (and of course what you've written in your lj) and it seems to me like the music industry...like how the songwriters don't actually own their stuff, the production studios do. John Fogerty and such. Which to me, is complete bull. If I wrote something, I would want to make money off of it, whenever or wherever it is used. That's just me.

Of course, I could be completely wrong about my assumed connections with these two issues...hee

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

nope, they connect truly. i guess the technical term is "exploitaiton of copyright" in terms of what the writers make and the producers then turn into a show/film/song/whatever.

[boofadil.livejournal.com]

*hugsyou*