Four Pennies

[ithildin]

I've seen this mentioned on a few blogs dealing with the strike. The idea is to mail envelopes with four pennies to the studio heads. Like the peanut mailing the Jericho fans did.

Comments

[medie]

that's the residuals they get from every DVD sale.

[(Anonymous)]

The writers or the studios?

I've heard a lot about the strike but I haven't heard what the writers actually want.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

The writers. They get a four cent residual on DVDs that sell for $20 or more.

A few links

A video that explains it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ55Ir2jCxk

A writer who presents a short summary: http://johnaugust.com/archives/2007/pencils-down

[some-day-soling.livejournal.com]

Ah! That last comment was from me.

[medie]

figured! And yeah, they get 4 cents. Stuff on the internet, as Ith said, is unpaid. They call it 'promotional' and get away with it. Ron Moore's mentioned this. The BSG webisodes everyone was gleeing over last year? The writers got nothing. He protested, the network put it online anyway.

[some-day-soling.livejournal.com]

Ok. I feel more for them then I did then. Thank you for the info.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

No money, and no credit apparently.

http://tv.ign.com/articles/833/833633p1.html

[medie]

*nods* yes.

[jerel.livejournal.com]

BSG webisodes everyone was gleeing over last year? The writers got nothing

The Office [American version] did the same thing. The 2 writers even won an Emmy for their work. And got paid zero dollars.