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If it's true, I don't understand why it took one guy hiring a lawyer on his own who did the detective work necessary to help out the rest of the industry. You

by MWil 13y ago

If it's true, I don't understand why it took one guy hiring a lawyer on his own who did the detective work necessary to help out the rest of the industry. You know, instead of like the concerted efforts of the industry itself. Does the VFX arm of the industry just not care to get involved in lobbying/lawyers? *understanding I read the part of the article that mentioned it's "difficult" because they have no union. If you don't have jobs, you don't have union busting employers - it's literally the best time to make a union.

mprovost 13y ago
The industry only has 6 customers (the studios) who often negotiate as a single entity (the MPAA) and who are big fans of subsidies, so for a a VFX studio to pursue something by themselves would essentially blacklist them and put them out of business. The brilliance of this plan is that it's being organised by the workers whose lives are being affected.
- MWil 13y ago
  But this plan wasn't organized by workers, it was done by one blogger. He may be donating this strategy to any collection of workers willing to make use of it but he paid the lawyers and they only shared it with him.
  - mprovost 13y ago
    He crowdfunded the money to pay the lawyers to look into it, quite a few people in the industry donated, it wasn't all his money. He published the lawyers' findings on his blog. As is often the case, there is one person who is leading the charge and acting as spokesperson, but there are a lot of people involved in this. See how many show up for the march outside the Oscars.
    - MWil 13y ago
      ah, now that sounds like a much better situation. glad to hear it.
gcb0 13y ago
This is also just a push to a fat deal on some other minor case. i'd guess. The document they cite is not even ruled over yet. And it will probably be full of references to "end-user consumption" or such, making it null on this VFX issue.

by MWil 13y ago

mprovost 13y ago

The industry only has 6 customers (the studios) who often negotiate as a single entity (the MPAA) and who are big fans of subsidies, so for a a VFX studio to pursue something by themselves would essentially blacklist them and put them out of business. The brilliance of this plan is that it's being organised by the workers whose lives are being affected.

MWil 13y ago
But this plan wasn't organized by workers, it was done by one blogger. He may be donating this strategy to any collection of workers willing to make use of it but he paid the lawyers and they only shared it with him.
- mprovost 13y ago
  He crowdfunded the money to pay the lawyers to look into it, quite a few people in the industry donated, it wasn't all his money. He published the lawyers' findings on his blog. As is often the case, there is one person who is leading the charge and acting as spokesperson, but there are a lot of people involved in this. See how many show up for the march outside the Oscars.
  - MWil 13y ago
    ah, now that sounds like a much better situation. glad to hear it.

gcb0 13y ago

This is also just a push to a fat deal on some other minor case. i'd guess. The document they cite is not even ruled over yet. And it will probably be full of references to "end-user consumption" or such, making it null on this VFX issue.