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Every time a Chevy is sold on a used car lot, GM should get a percentage of the selling price.
Every time I loan a book to someone, the publisher and author should receive a payment.
Each time a house sells, the architect, contractor and sub-contractors should receive a percentage of the selling price.
Maybe we create End User Licensing Agreements for everything.
What to do when the writers are on strike? Pretty much the same thing I do now.
Several years ago, in a KPBS fundraising pitch, I heard them say, over and over, "If KPBS is important to you, won't you become a member." I thought about it. How would I be affected if KPBS radio went off the air? At that point, I stopped being a member of KPBS. Would I miss "Car Talk" or "What, What"? Probably. Is it important to me? No. Is the world of commercial entertainment important to me? No.
What if Harry Potter had never been published? How about all my favorite old movies, TV shows, and plays? What if there never was a Music Man, or Mr. Roberts? What if the Next Great Play is never written?
Do I care if the writers get or don't get what they want? No. All parties concerned can slice up their particular pie any way they can work out.
If there are no new movies, books, plays, or television for the next five years, It will be time of classic movies, reprints, revivals, and reruns. It will a time of "best of" everything. And the industry will be forced to reinvent itself. That might be interesting to watch.
Some people are going to be greatly affected by the writers strike. Many people will have great financial upheaval if the strike last very long. it is a strike after all. Like any other protracted labor dispute, people are going to suffer. I am sorry that happens. I am sorry that people indirectly related to the entertainment industry will suffer.
But in my world, it just isn't going to matter. Commercial entertainment is not a valuable part of my life.
Every time I loan a book to someone, the publisher and author should receive a payment.
Each time a house sells, the architect, contractor and sub-contractors should receive a percentage of the selling price.
Maybe we create End User Licensing Agreements for everything.
What to do when the writers are on strike? Pretty much the same thing I do now.
Several years ago, in a KPBS fundraising pitch, I heard them say, over and over, "If KPBS is important to you, won't you become a member." I thought about it. How would I be affected if KPBS radio went off the air? At that point, I stopped being a member of KPBS. Would I miss "Car Talk" or "What, What"? Probably. Is it important to me? No. Is the world of commercial entertainment important to me? No.
What if Harry Potter had never been published? How about all my favorite old movies, TV shows, and plays? What if there never was a Music Man, or Mr. Roberts? What if the Next Great Play is never written?
Do I care if the writers get or don't get what they want? No. All parties concerned can slice up their particular pie any way they can work out.
If there are no new movies, books, plays, or television for the next five years, It will be time of classic movies, reprints, revivals, and reruns. It will a time of "best of" everything. And the industry will be forced to reinvent itself. That might be interesting to watch.
Some people are going to be greatly affected by the writers strike. Many people will have great financial upheaval if the strike last very long. it is a strike after all. Like any other protracted labor dispute, people are going to suffer. I am sorry that happens. I am sorry that people indirectly related to the entertainment industry will suffer.
But in my world, it just isn't going to matter. Commercial entertainment is not a valuable part of my life.
do not want -- really?
so you say.
If there are no new movies, books, plays, or television for the next five years, It will be time of classic movies, reprints, revivals, and reruns. It will a time of "best of" everything.
this belies your later statement. if commercial entertainment isn't a valuable part of your life, why are you listing only commercial entertainment here? the fact that it's older commercial entertainment doesn't make it non-commercial, written by professional writers, put on by professional performers. why isn't this a list of "writing and reading our own stories, playing charades and other games together, putting on our own plays, performing our own music"? that would be a return to doing for yourself. instead you're just willing to rest on the laurels of past commercial writing while scoffing at those newfangled writers of today whom you don't need.
it may well be that you really don't need nor want any commercial entertainment, but your mini essay doesn't show that. :)
Re: do not want -- really?
The other part I seem to have left out was the philosophical point of the "what if" statements. The great play that was never written is also unknown. We don't know that we don't know that a great play was missed. If there had never been a Music Man, for instance, the difference in the world would be only a loss of that particular topic in the conversation of a relatively few people.
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