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 "John W. Kennedy"  wrote:

> Immortus45 wrote:
> > I heard something to the effect that when a writer writes a script it
> > is considered to be a work-for-hire and that the studio owns the
> > rights to it and not the writer. Maybe you should suggest to the
> > writers guild negotiators that they try to change or modify that rule.
> 
> Already done, decades ago. The studio only owns the script considered as 
> a script-for-filming. As a piece of literature in its own right, it 
> belongs to the writer, s.v. "separation of rights".

  Which explains all the money I have spending on the Script books (g)
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