Quote from: Le Celticant on Dec 10, 2016, 02:43:59 PM
Quote from: windebieste on Dec 10, 2016, 08:24:29 AM
If you copy the movie (video game) and watch it without payment, the owner of that movie receives no income for their effort.
Considering that (In Hollywood at least) it is the Insurance Broker, it's not like giving them money make you a saint especially when that guy loves to speculates on copyrights.
Just like paying a bank kind of a paradox.
Everyone else got paid according to their contract, even the Producers and Directors, what they earn through the rights are just candies that drop every year
(Of course some director/producer prefer a lower salary and more % on the rights, this has to be discussed when creating each contract).
True, it all depends on the contract as well. I remember my friend telling me how he knew someone who wrote novels, and she went through two choices when discussing her contract.
On one choice, she could get paid a lot of money in one go for her novel to be published, and then leave it at that.
Or, she could get paid really low and then gradually gain income as each book is sold. I guess it's the second one where her income would suffer a heavy blow due to piracy of a novel not in the first one where she would've been paid anyway (around £4,000 if I remember correctly.)
I have no experience with this stuff, it's just what I heard him tell me about what she told him. Movie contracts may be different compared to novel contracts as well but he told me actors have these choices too. What you said just reminded me of that example so I thought I'd share what I heard.
Maybe an actual author on here might know more from personal experience.