2026-09-28 19:32 UTC
In other words, the media company/AI company lawsuits are a fight to see who gets the biggest piece when creative workers get eaten for dinner. We don't want either side to win: we want to be taken off the menu altogether.
Which is exactly what the Hollywood writers accomplished, and they didn't use copyright to do it. They used something *far* more important and powerful: *labor rights*.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-09-28 19:32
Like all the Hollywood guilds, the Writers Guild of America has a nearly unheard-of labor right. They are able to engage in something called "multi-employer bargaining," itself a weak form of "sectoral bargaining," which is when all the workers in a sector bargain with all the bosses in that sector. Sectoral bargaining was made practically illegal under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, and its last vestiges are to be found in Hollywood. 38/