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MPAA’s new Chairman/CEO Chris Dodd held his first official Board meeting in Washington DC today. But here’s what I find most interesting: following the meeting, the members of the Board from the major studios suddenly embraced the leaders from the major entertainment industry unions DGA, IATSE, SAG, AFTRA. Notably missing was the WGA which keeps being ostracized by the other unions not to mention the studios. The MPAA tells me the studios and other unions “scheduled meetings with key members of Congress and the Administration to discuss the critical importance of curbing online content theft and improving international market access”. Hmm.
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Anyone else scared? I hope they’re prepared to lay in that bed they’re working so hard to make. Who knows, maybe the Studios will even offer to wear a condom as they …
Both the Producers and Unions are working together to fight “Piracy/Digital Theft”.
While “Piracy/Digital Theft” financially hurts both parties, the issue also provides Union bosses with a very needed “bogeyman” to blame, and finger-point at, to their blindly-obedient union members, as the “cause” of many of the ills actually more attributable to the Union bosses own greed and incompetence.
Underemployed or Unemployed?
PIRACY!!
Declining U.S. film/television production jobs?
PIRACY!!
Financially failing union health & pension plans?
PIRACY!!
“blindly-obedient members”
as opposed to what? blindly-obedient employees?
No different then the major media corporations using this as a way to tell their stockholders that the declining box office is a result of
PIRACY! Declining DVD sales – Piracy! Declining growth, profits, etc- PIRACY! When it is bad development, recession and the result of reaching the end of the vault older titles whose DVD sales supported them. In other words, their incompetent, creatively lacking corporate leadership is their problem, not PIRACY!
Just ask the Swiss who found out that downloading did NOT affect the amount of money spent on media. OOOPS.
Most guild members DO NOT own the material they make so why are the guild involved? They simply have no standing and they should be against these censorship laws.
For once I am happy with the WGA.
No talk though amongst Kong Gress, studios and guilds (other than the WGA) about curbing studios’ appetite for purchasing and distribution stolen screenplays. That would cost them too much in profit losses. They’d be out of business. It’s much better for them to discuss what other people do, what doesn’t earn them profits. What ever their money buys, Kong Gress will give them along with a satanic hug and a kiss.