Giblin and I wrote a whole-ass book about this and related subjects, #ChokepointCapitalism, which not only details the scams that writers like Willingham are subject to, but also devotes fully half its length to presenting detailed, technical, shovel-ready proposals for making life better for creators:
https://chokepointcapitalism.com/
Willingham is doing something important here.
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Larger and larger entertainment firms offer shabbier and shabbier treatment to creative workers, as striking members of @WGAWest and @SAGAFTRA can attest. Over the past year, I've seen a sharp increase in the presence of absolutely unconscionable clauses in the contracts I'm offered by publishers:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/27/reps-and-warranties/#i-agree
I'm *six months* into negotiating a contract for a *300 word* piece I wrote for a magazine I started contributing to in 1992.
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