ICYMI: TV Staff Writers Earn Even Less That Comic Book Writers wga
"In case you have no idea what's going on in the world of TV and film, basically, the studios in the streaming explosion moved from doing pilots then launching shows, to running small rooms to generate an entire season and paying everyone crappy fees and some rooms going as little as 4 weeks. While a lot of this doesn't affect someone like me because I'm not a young staffer trying to start a career, it's an untenable situation for the industry at this point.
While this little clip has been doing the rounds. Anyone care to guess who this might have come from?They want to have the option of using our writing to train AI software to write scripts — something that can't even be copyrighted, so that's a bit chilling. Imagine a future where an exec hands you a ten page document generated by an AI program —"Prompts: outline for an international action film. Things blow up. No sex please.
Also, in the old days of networks and cable there were things called residuals so you got paid when your work was shown again. Like how if a book gets reprinted the publisher has to pay you royalties. Those have essentially disappeared with streaming, where your work is available forever. There are other issues, too, and if you want to see where things stand,
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