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Subject:Re: (2) Not being included == work for hire From:Yves Jeaurond <yves_jeaurond -at- CBC -dot- CA> Date:Tue, 26 May 1998 17:34:00 EDT
Gang:
Nice is not a business concept. Either you negotiate your inclusion in the
credits when you sign on or you don't. Portfolios are built this way, movies,
all creative work: So, you wanna see your name in lights? Sign here, kid.
To be fair, the work could have been so bad that a manager may have had to
rewrite the chit and thus no credit was given to the failed writer; and the
manager might not have wanted to be caught dead as a writer... There are other
scenarios--all <grin> undignified as plots to the next great American novel.
