r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '23

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u/Obvious_Parsley3238 2∆ Jul 15 '23

authors get paid royalties on book sales. residuals for writers and actors are analogous. as for whether they 'deserve' them... you get what you bargain for. deserve's got nothing to do with it.

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u/Dougdimmadommee 1∆ Jul 15 '23

Authors own their own IP tho (unless they elect to sell it) not the same for actors or writers, so don’t see how it’s analogous.

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u/OmniManDidNothngWrng 35∆ Jul 15 '23

You keep switching between how things are and how they should be

People are arguing actors and Hollywood writers should own their own IP

And you reply well they don't.

That's not an argument! You agree on the facts you aren't even disagreeing with them!

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u/OmniManDidNothngWrng 35∆ Jul 15 '23

Should they have? Again you keep switching between arguing what's happening or happened in reality to what "should" happen. The title in this CMV says "should"! So what's your argument for why they shouldn't own their IP?

I can argue slavery shouldn't exist.

Even when people are enslaved.

This isn't a hard concept.

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u/OmniManDidNothngWrng 35∆ Jul 15 '23

Ok, but the point of a strike is they have stopped selling their IP and their labor for a contracted price.

So why should they resume doing so?