WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA/WEST STRIKE - SAN FRANCISCO - Photos by Tony Perez
COMMENTS
LatentE said at 3:00 p.m. on Dec 21, 2007: Good coverage of the picketing. There's so little union strength in America today. This is more a symbolic strike than one of real significance to overall worker power in the future. But then, that symbolism is why it's important to both sides.
Photosfornow said at 3:55 p.m. on Dec 21, 2007: Very well said LatentE, I am a member of IATSE local 16 here in SF and my union is very strong and when we picket wew show up in numbers and a very loud.
Royceufc said at 4:27 p.m. on Dec 21, 2007: Great Street Shots - Hopefully they'll be back at it soon!
LatentE said at 4:42 p.m. on Dec 21, 2007: I'm not a big fan of Disney for their involvement in the extension of the copyright term limit. My impression is that copyright is at the heart of the writer's strike though - whether writers copyright ownership rights can be extended to other media and formats from the original form, or are the writers simply "work for hire," with no rights beyond their salary. It's ironic that the motion picture industry once considered other forms of distribution (VHS and Betamax video tapes) as a lone woman facing the Boston Strangler.
Jack Valenti, President of the Motion Picture Association Of America, before Congress: "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
Now that lone woman doesn't want anyone else to have a piece of her action with the Boston Strangler. :P
Disney owns ABC and you may one day need to get some work from them, so like much of America, where jobs are controlled by fewer and fewer more powerful people, one has to be careful what one says.
Lifequest22 said at 4:18 p.m. on Dec 22, 2007: Great photos and great capture of a part of history.
Pkeener said at 9:58 a.m. on Dec 23, 2007: I was waiting for a tabblo of this. Great Photojouralism, here. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall here...can you imagine the conversations going on between a bunch of creative writers??? Great Tabblo! Thank you!
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