Comments on: SAG Strike’s ETF Impact Is Up In the Air http://www.etftrends.com/2008/11/sag-strikes-etf-impact.html Keeping a grip on exchange traded funds (ETFs) Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:15:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Michael Russnow http://www.etftrends.com/2008/11/sag-strikes-etf-impact.html/comment-page-1/#comment-2602 Michael Russnow Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:22:32 +0000 http://www.etftrends.com/?p=6434#comment-2602 You ought to look at the following short video produced in Cologne, Germany by TV Star Andreas Stenschke. It points to what is at stake for writers, actors and directors regarding the potential loss of income when reruns of TV shows and movies go to the Internet rather than on cable and broadcast TV, where they currently show. It is particularly relevant as the Writers Guild is now in a battle with the AMPTP over their reneging of the Internet residual formula agreed to at the end of the strike in February. Link to the video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PPZV3dTzbg The Europeans' (and other international artists) situation is absurd and the AMPTP producers and networks would like nothing more than to remake that as their modus operandi on our shores as well. You ought to look at the following short video produced in Cologne, Germany by TV Star Andreas Stenschke. It points to what is at stake for writers, actors and directors regarding the potential loss of income when reruns of TV shows and movies go to the Internet rather than on cable and broadcast TV, where they currently show. It is particularly relevant as the Writers Guild is now in a battle with the AMPTP over their reneging of the Internet residual formula agreed to at the end of the strike in February. Link to the video is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PPZV3dTzbg

The Europeans’ (and other international artists) situation is absurd and the AMPTP producers and networks would like nothing more than to remake that as their modus operandi on our shores as well.

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