Interesting analogy. But surely there's one obvious difference: When an entertainment program runs, someone gets paid, and residuals mean whoever gets paid (by subscribers, say) has to share the receipts with the writers. But when a company runs a program they own, they don't receive any money for it; it's just work getting done.
--- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been abandoned, and still obeys. -advice to a tempter, from The Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Dave Beagle Sent: Sunday, December 3, 2023 14:17 I always thought this was something a union for IT workers would ask for in a contract. Why should actors get residuals every time a show runs and not the programmers every time their program runs? Written programs are every bit intellectual property as a TV program. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
