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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 4051067" data-attributes="member: 307">Because the work is, to a certain extent, the result of their effort. Residuals are the element that make most writers willing to accept lower pay up front: if studios were willing to pay more up front, they might not have to give residuals. Any time you see someone accepting deferred compensation, it is usually the employers idea to have it as such, to reduce their up front costs (in point of fact, it is the studios who originally wanted to give residuals, on the theory that they would have to pay less up front, and only pay out more if a project was successful enough to be shown repeatedly).The reality is that writers get paid less up front than they would if they were not promised residuals. Now, studios are making a pile of money in various areas and not paying residuals on them, which justifiably makes the writers unhappy.Very few groups are so out to screw those who they work with that their business practices have become notorious as a result. The movers and shakers of the movie and television industry is one of those groups, with the monikers "Hollywood Accounting" and "Monkey Points" being coined to describe some of the most egregious known examples.Of course, engaging in illegal labor practices by misnaming positions to prevent them from being eligible to join a union, and then firing the people in those positions when they bring an action to rectify that situation is probably worse than engaging in deceptive accounting practices. And the studios do that too.So really, the studios have no leg to stand on here. None at all.</blockquote>

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