catching up on WGA strike and other important causes

Dec 06, 2007 19:17

Okay, so there's actually only one bit of non-WGA news. But it's pretty interesting.

Videos
The AMPTP explains their latest proposal

Cute internet animals are going on strike in solidarity

Negotiations

The WGA's suggested contract

A Modest Proposal: Reuse...for Advertisers!

The playbook of the AMPTP

Divisions in the AMPTP

The Strike

Misc. tidbits

Parisan writers support the strike...and are having problems of their own.

Daily Kos talks about how the WGA is winning the public relations war.

A Libertarian's experience picketing with the WGA.

Neil Gaiman talks about the strike. Little new info, but I know I have some Gaiman fans on the list, and thought you'd be interested.

Food for Thought

Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times suggests that writers eliminate the middleman -- aka the AMPTP -- completely and look for outside investors themselves.

Just what is entertainment worth?

On the surface, the impasse revolves around how to divvy up future Internet media revenues. But the real problem is that nobody knows the value of anything anymore.
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