On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:29:50PM -0800, Michael O'Keefe wrote: > My brother is currently making a film for $1.2 million (AUD) which my > parents are putting in 20% and other investors another 40%, and he's > taking the risk on the rest. > > You don't think he deserves some sort of protection against the > "pirates" that might distribute his film so that he won't get any > revenue from it ?
Michael This is a valid question. The point that was made earlier regarding books and music applies to film as well. I am questioning whether anybody but a few superstars makes more than beer money from copyright. Unless your brother has a deal with a Hollywood media machine, the chances of him making any big copyright money from this film are probably nil. Few questions: 1. With today technology and actors begging for work, why does it cost over one million to make this movie? Did your brother get the shaft from some producer's contract like we hear about record labels doing all the time? 2. Are you sure he wouldn't make the same or more $$ making the movie independently and releasing it himself under a license that allowed sharing? (The reasom I ask is that I'm not buying this $1.2M price tag yet w/o more info.) Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
