Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
veniasilente@lemm.ee 9 months agoI can get that they’d not necessarily be paid upfront, but there is no possible legal contract in which they are to be paid only in the future, in causality, according to the performance of a ~~third~ ~ fourth party who is not in the contract. What, are the actors paying their weekly groceries with IOUs?
ominouslemon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Every artist in every field get MAYBE paid a tiny bit upfront, and then a percentage of the sales. That’s how books and music work, for instance