Eric Bogosian's letter to Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily

From DeadlineHollywood.com, 1.3.08
by Nikki Finke

Eric Bogosian -- actor, playwright, screenwriter, and Writers Guild member for over 20 years -- emails me (and permits me to make his message public) about six issues he hasn't heard mentioned in all the talk about finances between the striking writers and the Big Media companies:

"1) In the spirit of 'residuals', the producers have never played fair. Contractually they short the writers (take a look at the international "buy-out", which isn't even being discussed in this negotiation) and then short the writers again by under-reporting income (again, especially internationally).

"2) In the new "Internet" age, for the first time, very exact accounting will be possible. Of course the advertisers will demand such exact accounting. Servers will be able to count the "hits" on any download very exactly. So potential residuals can potentially be calculated to the fraction of a dollar. More

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