Getting paid for work

This is a great video regarding the writer's strike in Hollywood. As a photographer I can sympathize with them. An image licensed for print and the web costs more than one licensed for just print. Add larger territories, countries, etc. the image licensing cost goes up. Add other reprint media, print sizes, print runs, etc. the cost goes up. What the media conglomerates are telling the writers is that if a few million viewers experience their creative work in the Internet then they don't deserve to be paid any extra for it.



On the same topic here is another really great video of Harlan Ellison, a very famous Science Fiction writer, who was asked to work for free for the "benefit of publicity":