The sorry state of streaming residuals shows why SAG and the WGA are striking.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    I think having all art that can find an audience funded this way would help this issue more than hurt it.

    • SirShanova
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      211 year ago

      And then we get into the weeds of how do we decide who gets grants? I’m a fairly enthusiastic watcher of Linus Tech Tips, and he discusses that the entertainment tax grants the Canadian Government gives out are so complex that only the largest companies (the ones who do not need the grants) can hire people to navigate the bureaucracy for the tax breaks. Is choosing artists going to be an America’s Got Talent competition? A random draw? What source do we get viewer/listener numbers from?

      I would love to resume the federal government’s artist programs like under the New Deal, but the reality is that our culture is more niche and divided than ever. Rather than swing and jazz being unquestionably dominant for music in the days of yore, now we’d have to check and verify every SoundCloud rapper, YouTube artist, and pop-megastar.

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        71 year ago

        Some of your questions are covered in the video I linked. Others are kind of indirectly answered.