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".

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