HP & DH Movi

[sistermagpie]

> Ali:
> How much
> 
>  are they asking for, and is that reasonable under the 
circumstances?
> 
> 
> Kemper now:
> From what I understand, I think so.  From about $0.04/DVD sold to 
about $0.08
> They currently get nothing from iTune sales and from streamed shows.
> 
> You can buy an episode of The Office on iTunes for cheap but the 
writer sees none of it.
> You can stream The Office for free but it has paid advertisement, 
the writer sees none of it.

Magpie:
I think it's reasonable too! And the writers getting a good deal will 
I think pave the way for the actors guilds who have the same fears.

This strike seems hugely important to me and if I was going to get 
impatient and want it to end my instinct would first be to lean more 
towards wanting the people opposing the writers to be more generous 
rather than the writers first. The people who do stuff like get the 
writers to write what amounts to short episodes on the web, but call 
them "promotions" so that they don't have to pay them for the episode 
they just wrote. I just don't picture them as standing their with 
their empty pockets turned out because they've got nothing left while 
the writers demand more.

I'm not surprised this is a long-running strength. The Internet 
changes everything and it's going to take a while to work this stuff 
out in some fair way, and of course the people who now control the 
money are going to try to keep as much for themselves as they can, 
and the writers (and later the actors) are going to try to get as 
much as they can for their people. Of course I hope it ends soon, not 
just for my entertainment, but so all the people who depend on 
production for work can make their money too, but that's just as much 
a reason to want the other side to offer more than for the writers to 
demand less. 

-m