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    • Before Kayne West but I published it after his rant. For more, click here - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/kayne-west-is-mad-as-hell-at-twitter-and-hes-not-going-to-take-this-anymore/

      1 month ago by Peter Kaufman

      in Twitter Impersonator

    • Did you write this before or after the Kayne West rant?

      1 month ago by steven corn

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    • Pam, Many thanks for your correction. My bad is all the more severe since I googled the term for the correct spelling before publishing my post. Apparently, there's a number of us out there...

      2 months ago by Peter Kaufman

      in SAG’s Thaw

    • Alas, SAG seems suicidal - it's working on a very old paradigm & refuses to wake up to the new digital era! (P.S. it's "Sturm und Drang" German for "Storm and...

      2 months ago by pam munro

      in SAG’s Thaw

    • your notes are always educational and amusing...I believe what you have to say because you don't take yourself so seriously.

      3 months ago by katherine stephens

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WGA Deal (Pretty Much) Closes. Now Let The Healing Begin.

Started by Peter Kaufman · 10 months ago

Everywhere you look, change is in the air.
All indications point to the writers strike being called off by Monday; certainly by sometime next week, at the latest. This is great news but it will likely take many months for the industry to get back on its feet and much longer to discern ... Continue reading »

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  • joseph

    1 year ago

    so who won?
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  • steve corn

    1 year ago

    the question for me is would the writers have achieved a better deal if they deferred on negotiating a new contract for a year or two? I think that by then, the industry will have a decent, working, business model for downloading movies and TV shows. right now, things are too experimental and no one knows what strategy is going to make the best money.

    so, if the WGA renewed their old deal for a short term and didn't obligate themselves to any long-term royalty deal for such downloads, I think that they would have been a much better place to get their royalty structure. It's always easier to discuss a revenue stream that is established versus a theoretical one.
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