The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • Venia Silente@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I can get that they’d not necessarily be paid upfront, but there is no possible legal contract in which they are to be paid only in the future, in causality, according to the performance of a ~~third~ ~ fourth party who is not in the contract. What, are the actors paying their weekly groceries with IOUs?

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      11 months ago

      Every artist in every field get MAYBE paid a tiny bit upfront, and then a percentage of the sales. That’s how books and music work, for instance