{"id":1469,"date":"2007-11-11T13:01:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2007-11-11T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T11:01:12","slug":"hollywood-execs-the-writers-and-their-compensation-and-stealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2007\/11\/11\/hollywood-execs-the-writers-and-their-compensation-and-stealing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood execs, the writers and their compensation, and &quot;stealing&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><q>The studios have decided that since they have power, they will simply define the writer&#8217;s revenue stream out of existence. DVD sales simply won&#8217;t <q>count<\/q> towards <q>residual<\/q> sales in exactly the same manner as VHS sales. Also: since the internet doesn&#8217;t <q>broadcast<\/q>, writers (it seems) don&#8217;t have the right to money from <q>rebroadcast<\/q>. Just so we&#8217;re clear: when you buy a season of TV on VHS, writers are compensated. When you buy it on DVD or iTunes, <a href=\"http:\/\/davies.lohudblogs.com\/files\/2007\/11\/110907davies.jpg\">they are not<\/a>.<\/q><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.punningpundit.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/the_crux_of_the.html\" class=\"source\">The Punning Pundit<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/info\/60bm4\/comments\/\">via reddit<\/a><br \/>\n<em>link (also <a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/info\/60bg0\/comments\/\">via reddit<\/a>) added<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:995,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/davies.lohudblogs.com\\\/files\\\/2007\\\/11\\\/110907davies.jpg&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.lohud.com\\\/files\\\/2007\\\/11\\\/110907davies.jpg&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;pending&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:996,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.punningpundit.com\\\/archives\\\/2007\\\/11\\\/the_crux_of_the.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20111229085027\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.punningpundit.com\\\/archives\\\/2007\\\/11\\\/the_crux_of_the.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-06 10:07:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-13 01:27:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-13 01:27:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:997,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/reddit.com\\\/info\\\/60bm4\\\/comments&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20071215101533\\\/http:\\\/\\\/reddit.com:80\\\/info\\\/60bm4\\\/comments\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-06 10:07:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-13 01:27:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-13 01:27:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:998,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/reddit.com\\\/info\\\/60bg0\\\/comments&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20261006102512\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.reddit.com\\\/info\\\/60bg0\\\/comments&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/reddit.com\\\/info\\\/60bg0\\\/comments&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-13 01:27:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-13 01:27:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The studios have decided that since they have power, they will simply define the writer&#8217;s revenue stream out of existence. DVD sales simply won&#8217;t count towards residual sales in exactly the same manner as VHS sales. Also: since the internet doesn&#8217;t broadcast, writers (it seems) don&#8217;t have the right to money from rebroadcast. Just so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,21],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-internet","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}