Movie Industry Now Wants To Limit Rights Of Canadian Actors
from the protect-the-artist,-huh? dept
By now, it should be abundantly clear that the entertainment industry's complaints about copyright laws or new technologies have absolutely nothing to do with protecting the creative talent. The industry still trots out that line, but it's been laughable for quite some time. However, the next time you hear it from, say, the movie industry, you might want to point them to the following story. It seems that Canadian actors and producers had worked out a new union deal that would give them residual rights to content used online. Everything was all set... until the US movie studios came in and nixed the deal, fearing that it would lead artists in other countries (such as the US) to demand similar rights. This is a case where both sides at the negotiating table had agreed to what they felt was a fair deal concerning new media opportunities -- and suddenly the US studio bosses step in to nix the done deal. So, the next time someone says that the MPAA represents the interests of all of those who work in the industry, ask them why they're working so hard to block these kinds of deals.
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Does This Really.......
Methinks the MPAA must live by the line spoken by Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street" - "greed..... is good".
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We can't...they block all our media outlets except the net :)
Oh wait...they're gonna end up blocking that too when they get rid of that whole pesky "neutrality" business.
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And what does Bush have to do with this? Clinton enacted a large amount of the current legislation used to get a stranglehold on digital mediums.
And while he sure hasn't done anything to help, he will be gone soon.
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Meanwhile back in Hollywood North
There are a few fantabulous canucklehead actor's about, some we know about and many we don't, but for the most part the average actor making very good money in this country wouldn't be able to do a Denny's ad south of the border!
No offence to my many actor friends, but you don't deserve more money - nor do I on the other side of the camera, but I didn't ask for more.
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Shame
Most of us Internet junkies do not want to use, watch, or listen to content for free at the expense of others. We are left little choice though with decisions like this.
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Guess not, huh?
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