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[GWL]: fighting the corporate giants

Periodically since joining this list serve I have seen numerous letters 
primarily from writers lamenting the current attempts by Gannett and other 
major publishers to essentially usurp virtually all rights now and forever 
from writers. As the latest spate of letters regarding Hearst and Gannett all 
too well illustrates major publishers are no longer playing by the "old 
rules" and will certainly continue to  try and use any leverage they and 
their lawyers can think of.  Though the Tasini case was an important decision 
for of us who are freelance creators this case in and of itself is not going 
to protect us and our means of livlihood.  

I suppose in the "good old days" a freelancer could make a pretty decent 
living and not have to worry much about losing all control over their work 
and worse, being paid a one time fee for work which could then be used over 
and over, re-packaged,
sold, put on line, or in short used to generate continued income for the 
publishers on the backs of the original creators.  Well guess what folks 
those "good old days" are over!  So what to do?  Well maybe its time that 
freelancers of all stripe - writers,
illustrators, photographers -- all us creative content producers adopted a 
new way of doing business.

The ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers) in conjunction with the 
CVA 
(Coalition of Visual Artists); GAG  ( Graphic Artists Guild) IPA 
(Illustrators Partnership of America), numerous other professional 
photographers groups have come together to create a co-op business model 
expressly for WRITERS photographers and illustrators.  You do NOT have to be 
a member of ANYTHING to join the co-op.  It  costs 100 bucks which is fully 
refundable.  And you become part of a collective group of content creators 
with must I add much more contract leverage power then you or I standing 
alone ever could.  Sound too good to be true?  Check out 
www.mira.com - www. asmp.org - call up Johnathan Tasini whatever!!!!

The good old days are gone but the new days can be a hell of a lot better for 
all of us  IF we take collective action instead of fighting both the 
publishers and each other for those jobs - for our rights - for our livlihood!

Rob Bridges
303 394 1239

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