It's just far too easy for people to understand why we're asking for what we're asking for. And I never tire of hearing people explain just how much sense we're making. Check out this video from vlogger and author John Green:
Common Sense on Our Side
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 by Annie Frisbie
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A well drawn analogy to the publishing industry. Thanks for posting this video.
I could also point to analogues to Advance Readers Copies in the music industry. There are CDs out there (and cassettes and old vinyl LPs) that are marked promotional for which recording artists receive no royalties.
The thing is really good lawyers for writers and recording artists put provisions into the contracts of their clients that limit the amount of promotional copies in distribution (like say no more than 10% of the copies printed or pressed).
With those who work in the TV and movie industry, unfortunately there are no limits in their contracts as to who can access internet media (downloads and streams) for free. Sure TV and movie critics should be able to have free access so they can review materials (and hopefully give artists and creatives good press to increase their profits). But should everyone have free access? I don't think so.
One more thing...other than an album by a band called Sigue Sigue Sputnik I cannot name a single instance of a recording that has commercials in it. It was of course an unusual thing for a music recording, the band agreed to placing the commercials on its album and the music press wrote about it giving them great publicity. And that band was contractually entitled to royalties on album sales.
The idea of free access to TV series or movies that have had commercials inserted into them without the permission of those who created them is offensive enough. But it is worse when the networks and studios claim that they are not going to share the ad revenue derived from those embedded ads with the creators. There is nothing particularly special about what device you watch the movie or TV program on, it's the fact that you're watching a TV program or movie with advertising that counts.
Pardon my French but promotional my a**
Go WGA. You have this attorney's full support.
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