swp wrote:
> On May 10, 12:24 pm, "jmsa...{at}aol.com"  wrote:
>> On May 9, 2:48 pm, aldar...{at}gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Are you receiving any of the revenue from sales of B5 on iTunes? Is W=
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>>> actually sharing? This will determine whether I buy the series online
>>> or just rip the episodes from my DVD's (Legal issues aside).
>> Not a gripe, just an answer...as writer, creator and EP I have never
>> received anything from the DVD sales, Itunes, AOL, bittorrent,
>> soundtracks or any other form of video distribution on B5.
>>
>> This is one of the reasons why there's almost certainly going to be a
>> writer's strike this year.
>>
>> jms
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> I thought you had Harlan Ellison on board with you as a creative
> consultant on B5.  Didn't he give you his boiler-plate, iron clad
> contract for making sure that THE WRITER GETS PAID and owns his own
> work?  This just seems .. wrong, considering who is involved.

The technical term for that is "pricing yourself out of the market". No=20
one in 1992-8 could have pulled such a deal off.

That's why the WGA exists, and that's why it looks like a strike.

=C0 la lanterne touts les "suits"!

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