The Hollywood Writers Strike - What side are you on?
Years ago, writers could receive residual payments whenever a show is licensed into syndication or through DVD sales, but global streaming services like Netflix and Amazon have off those distribution arms and pay a fixed residual instead. The unions have taken particular aim at so called mini rooms, which have proliferated over the last decade. There is no definition of a mini room, but in one example, studios convene a small group of writers before been given an official green light to compose a script