In a way, I agree with Tallon. It is the distributors, not the studios, that get the royalties from official overpriced DVDs purchased from your local entertainment store. Why i say overpriced? Because it costs less than a US dollar to manufacture an official DVD, $0.39 for a video game CD.TallonKarrde23 wrote:Bootlegs > official
While Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away were being exhibited in the US theatres, Disney, the distributor, was making most of the money, not Studio Ghibli. Sure the studio made some money when they sold distributing rights to Disney, but it was Disney who got the royalties for every ticket sold in America and for every DVD sold in America. The studios are already paid when they were given the films to work on, when they were working on the films, and when they finished with the films. But NOT when they sell the films to the public. They either sell to a distributor or their production company distributes it themselves. Do you think its Bandai who made Cowboy Bebop? No, its Sunrise Studios. Like the studios, the actors and directors don't recieve royalty payments, that's why they always do special interviews.
The Video Game industry is just like the Anime industry. As is the music industry. I have no problems with people downloading music, because the musicians were already paid to make the music and will not receive any further benefits. In fact, most of their income is supplied from their tours and interviews, not how many CDs they sold. The only people who gets paid for every CD sold or the people who owns the Labels. Metallica, Dr. Dre, Eminem, and some others all own their own labels, so that's why they hate mp3s being shared on the internet.
Summing it all up, its not the actual creators of the different medias that all of you so enjoy that gets paid for every DVD or CD sold, but actually the production companies and distributors are the ones who make the extra $$ for every disc/ticket sold.
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