All posts by David Arditi
The fight for 2% − how residuals became a sticking point for striking actors
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Streaming disrupted the entire entertainment industry, upending the DVD-purchasing, film-renting, moviegoing model of decades past. That shift has also changed how actors get paid. And some of the gains actors made through prior labor struggles – particularly through…
Actors are demanding that Hollywood catch up with technological changes in a sequel to a 1960 strike
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. For the first time since 1960, actors and screenwriters are on strike at the same time. As with many of the other strikes that have rippled across the United States over the past three years, this walkout is…
The exploitation of Hollywood’s writers is just another symptom of digital feudalism
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The current Hollywood writers strike has drawn international attention to the plight of TV and film writers in the streaming era. Much has been made of television’s golden age, during which streaming platforms have offered audiences an abundance…