KUDOS TO THE WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA!

After 3 months of picketing the 'producers' (aka the Studios & Networks - they were not picketing me!), it appears a fair and equitable contract is about to become a reality.

Good for them!

Somebody had to do it. That the big guys were going to cut out the future distribution venues from revenue sharing with the writers was bogus. Eventually, the internet will be a viable profit model. And when it does, they need to share with the people who create the content that drives the profits.

Now we need to take it to the next step. Getting the 'producers' to share with the Producers. When we TV Producers take projects to the 'producers', the networks keep all (or most) of whatever profit comes from our intellectual property. We get paid for the grunt work, but not the real payoff - after market sales in DVDs and foreign sales.

How are we to stay afloat and come up with the next big idea if we don't have some time to create them? Producers need some downtime to create and prepare proposals while still being able to pay the rent. Having a larger piece of the earnings from our own creations would help that along.

The British have managed to figure it out and are now in the midst of a 'Golden Age'. The British Invasion of American TV is in full swing and American producers are falling by the wayside.

We need to make the playing field even. Or face extinction as an industry.