Links posted on February 09, 2008
TV Strike Ovar? Sounds like the breakthrough was to agree on a percentage of revenue receipts rather than on rerun-based residuals (if I understood this correctly). I know the music labels, like most baseball teams, have made an art form out of losing money on only the subject-to-royalty parts of their revenue streams, but it sounds like they were careful to specify 'receipts' (i.e. gross, not net). Summary of the agreement (pdf) here.
MIT approved* perpetual motion [more inside]