Agree. 95% of what the “entertainment” industry creates is pure crap. To call it “intellectual” property is laughable.
Television is mostly reality junk that cost little to produce since there are no actors to pay. Movies are pathetic mostly. Poorly written repetitive brain dead nonsense. Fast and furious rubbish. The record industry gets people to buy records, then 8 tracks, then cassettes, then digital, now streaming. Buying the same songs over & over. Concerts prices have skyrocketed, as have sporting events. The average fan has been priced out of live events. Soon, they’ll be priced out of televised events. With cable and streaming services galore each wanting you to subscribe while they continue to jack up the monthly fee. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 3:49 PM, Doug Fuerst <[email protected]> wrote: 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" <[email protected]> To [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
