Chapter 15
You Can Get Paid to Do this
Key Terms
agents |
logline |
public domain |
clear title |
pari passu |
service for hire |
common law |
per minute of finished |
statute |
concept |
program |
treatment |
copyright |
percentage of the gross |
work-made-for-hire |
first-draft screenplay |
piecework |
Writers Guild of America |
flat fee |
pitching |
(East and West) |
indemnity |
premise |
Writers’ Guild of Great Britain |
intellectual property |
producer’s net |
Writing for the Entertainment World
The writer is indispensable, yet not always valued—at least in the entertainment world. Sam Goldwyn, in one of his dassic aphorisms, is reported to have called scriptwriters “schmucks with Underwoods.” An Underwood, for those who have no cultural memory about this, ...
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