What the Writers' Strike Is Really About
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The Loss of Transparency in the Business Model of Studio Content
The WGA had a successful arbitration against Netflix actually last August, where they got tens of millions of dollars in what they said were residuals that should have been paid. The calculation is based on a license fee. How much is it to license the content that's produced by the studio and the studio could be the same as a distributor in this case, how much that license fee is to distribute it. And if you're both the producer of the content and the distributor, there have been questions and arguments about what that fee should be.
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