Hollywood Monopoly

Dave The Man · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 4:09 pm

This article has a good point. The Copyright Rule�s they want in is so they can Monoplise it and they can have 100% of the Market Share and no one else can enter it.

Disgusting

http://torrentfreak.com/in-europe-pirates-are-writing-the-copyright-law-150104/

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

Bigger, I thought it was a new edition of my favourite game!

Get over it Dave!

John Wren · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:43 pm

yeah, i thought it was going to be about the board game and i was then going to ask to see if anyone has seen the afl version?

KenH · Joined: 24 Jan 2010

I was the same.

stui magpie · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:09 pm

Tannin · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:13 pm

That's a great article, Dave, and essential reading for anyone. Thanks for posting it!

(TP, JW and Ken, get of your fat arses, click through and read the damn thing. You might learn something, and learn too that at least some of the more advanced parts of the world have stopped going backwards on your rights and are really improving things.)

KenH · Joined: 24 Jan 2010

Dave The Man · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:26 pm

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

John Wren · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:35 pm

John Wren · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:41 pm

Dave The Man · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:41 pm

Can this stay on Topic and not talk about the Game of Monopoly

Tannin is the only 1 Who I think actually read the Article

Wokko · Come and take it. Joined: 04 Oct 2005

Torrentfreak is in my daily site visits, so I'd read this already. Australians are government following sheep when it comes to this stuff, we just love being told what to do. I'd love a bit more political activism, but our 'she'll be right mate' attitude has been used against us for decades. Takes something pretty big now days to get us away from the flat screen TV or iWhatsit.

stui magpie · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:55 pm

I did actually read the article.

While the copyright laws as they stand and the behaviour of the companies in selling content separately to different parts of the world shits me, does anyone have any simple explanation for how royalties tie in with this, if at all?

My rudimentary understanding was that musicians and actors got royalties when a broadcaster played their song/showed the TV program they were in. The people who were in MASH would have been getting a monthly cheque for years due to re-runs.

So apart from the production companies losing out, how much do the grunts who perform get robbed by "piracy"?

Tannin · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:16 pm

It varies, Stui, varies a lot. Generally, though, it's between not much and bugger-all. You have to sell a zillion records to get much back.

I believe that the standard contract gives very little or nothing to most actors (musicians, authors, whatever), and often gives nothing at all by way of royalties if the company pays cash up front. (Nothing wrong with that, at least not in theory. I can think of a hel lof a lot of bands where, if they called me in to play bass on their album, I'd far rather take $1000 up front as a one-off than get $100 cash and 0.004 cents per copy sold. Of course, if tey turn out to be the next Prince, I'd look silly, but 999 times out of 1000 I'd end up in front.

If you are a big star, however, it's different. You can ask (and get) a good cut (half of which goes to your manager). Even then, lots gets taken out in the fine print. It turns out that your royalty, for example, only kicks in after "expenses" and the "expenses" can include almost anything. This is why the major acts - most famously the Beatles and the Stones in the early 70s - set up their own record companies.