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.
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.
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Date: 2007-11-08 07:48 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-08 07:49 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-08 07:54 pm (UTC)From:http://tv.ign.com/articles/833/833633p1.html
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Date: 2007-11-08 07:55 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-09 02:34 am (UTC)From:The Office [American version] did the same thing. The 2 writers even won an Emmy for their work. And got paid zero dollars.