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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
What about a writers' overhead? Sure they get a check for that $0.08, but that doesn't account for their costs in writing it, while the $4.75 (or whatever the figure is) does account for the studios' cost in producing it. Comparing the $0.08 to either extreme (gross sale or net profit) tells an incomplete story.
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Wouldn't their costs, including overhead, and proffit be made from the original sale of the script? I thought the DVD sales were royalties akin to bonuses, or gravey. I agree they should get a piece of the pie, however. And they deserve it just as much- if not more- than the actors, IMHO.