Comments on: Q&A: Ezra Sacks on Writers Guild Strike http://gigaom.com/video/qa-ezra-sacks-on-writers-guild-strike/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:31:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Great “Movies on an iPhone” Debate « NewTeeVee http://gigaom.com/video/qa-ezra-sacks-on-writers-guild-strike/#comment-451174 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:55:04 +0000 http://newteevee.com/2007/10/21/qa-ezra-sacks-on-writers-guild-strike/#comment-451174 [...] wasn’t), because in an interview with Sacks last fall about the possibility of a WGA strike, he also used the analogy of having Lawrence on your phone to illustrate why writers were lobbying for new media residuals. It seems that the film is the [...]

]]> By: roxanne Darling http://gigaom.com/video/qa-ezra-sacks-on-writers-guild-strike/#comment-451173 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:33:47 +0000 http://newteevee.com/2007/10/21/qa-ezra-sacks-on-writers-guild-strike/#comment-451173 Jackson – Thanks for asking the questions that are so many our minds. Clearly the old rules don’t apply and there are many looking for a new strategy, a new formula, most of all newly defined relationships.

I personally think unions (of the past) have themselves become dysfunctional bureaucracies with varying degrees of direct benefit to their members. I do however strongly support a fairer distribution of the value created by groups of people. It should not all go to a select few, and technology now has the ability to easier track and distribute value.

]]>