The sorry state of streaming residuals shows why SAG and the WGA are striking.

  • macrocephalic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Did you take your job at a rate of pay based on getting paid residuals in perpetuity?

    This is like you taking a contract where they continue to pay you a licence fee for each server that they use your product on, then they move the product to a cloud system so they can get the output of 100 servers with only a single server licence.

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      1 year ago

      Wait writers normally get royalties for their work? What the fuck that’s amazing, so Netflix is just in violation of a contract then? Why doesn’t the WGA just sue them?

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      1 year ago

      If they have a contract to receive payment perpetually why are they striking instead of litigating?

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        1 year ago

        Because the contract probably pays differently depending on the broadcast method and didn’t take streaming into account