21st July 2014, 12:56 PM
Marc Berger Wrote:I think that you might need to split the we bit into two. The salaried and the self employed. The salaried no and the self employed yes. The salaried are paid for their archive to be donated to the public and the self employed have their archive taken off them and given to the public for nothing. it's not only profit but all of the effort of producing the stuff which is not being paid for. A possible way to look at it is that the self employed are working for half the pay of the salaried.
I'm sorry but that makes no sense to me.
Maybe we understand the tern self-employed differently.
If you're self-employed you set your own 'pay/cost' so if your not making enough its your own fault.
Employment status is irrelevant to 'ownership' of an archive. Only rank in the ladder from who won the tender/signed the contract and who does the digging.
Also I was talking about the final product i.e. the tv programmes, glossy books, films that (can) make a lot of money.