They get a cut because that's what they negotiated, either directly or via a union. Getting paid a salary instead of residuals has the advantage that they can't cheat you by fudging the bookkeeping, so if you negotiate royalties think about how to keep the accounting honest.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Doug Fuerst <d...@bkassociates.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 3:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler programmer wanted Just an observation. Actors are paid for their work as well. Many are paid millions to make a film. Why do they then get a cut from every viewing of the film? They were paid. Quite well. But they get a cut forever. Just does not seem fair, or equitable. Doug Fuerst ------ Original Message ------ From "Radoslaw Skorupka" <00000471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 12/6/2023 15:11:57 PM Subject Re: Assembler programmer wanted >W dniu 05.12.2023 o 19:31, Harry Wahl pisze: >>I have designed and written many things. The vast majority of which entitles >>me to no royalties or commissions. This is because any competent practitioner >>could have created the same (or similar) thing. > >That's how application programmers work. They are paid for their job. >Not only IT - the same apply to any engineers designing new buildings, >bridges, machines, engines, etc. > >>However, there are a very few things I have designed or written that merited >>recognition as "intellectual property" and subsequently worth significant, >>special, negotiated compensation. Very significant. > >Yes and no. Even your very significant thing you designed can be sold. It can >be expensive, but it is subject of trade. >Last, but not least: You can sell anything you created, like (fictitious case) >Edison who sold his light bulb. But maybe the contract was signed a priori - >you work for Edison firm, developing the source of light. > > >Something to keep the discussion on topic somehow related to IBM-MAIN: >Last two weeks I've got a lot of job offerings for assembler coding position. >I don't know the company, but headhunters said the job office is located in >Warsaw (although most of the time the job is remote). >I don't know how much do they pay, because I gently refused. However other job >proposals in EU (mainframe) are usually at 40-60 €/hour level. What's not >funny, the companies located in Poland pay less than foreign ones. Fortunately >nowadays neither remote job is a problem, nor EU borders are. > >-- Radoslaw Skorupka >Lodz, Poland > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
