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Keep up with the news, folks. The Writers Guild dropped their demand for an increase on DVD revenues over the weekend. The sticking points is the revenues on new media.
And because the Producers' Alliance had the writers agree in their last contract negotiations to a paltry DVD percentage because it was a new media, only to now refuse to give them an increased percentage now that it's an old media ... is precisely the reason why the writer's shouldn't budge on their current new media demands. Fool me once, shame on me ... and all that.
I was so pleased to see picket lines all around Sony Studios on my way to work this morning. I hope individual teamsters exercise their conscience rights to honor those picket lines.
Neither side has been a shining beacon of civility and reason during the negotiations ... but the writers are the initial creators of the work which, from that point and that point only, goes on to provide every single job in the entertainment industry. Whereas the producers and studios have proven themselves time and again - and in some very recent court rulings for good measure - to be dishonest, greedy bastards who won't honor their legal committments and will cheat everyone they can sucker.
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