links for 2007-12-31

• Writers Guild of America
  Pattern of Demands 2007
  (tags: rights residuals broadcast)
• family..
  past futures, and beyond.
  (tags: starwars portrait)
• The RIAA Will Die in 2008
  And in it’s place will form a fig tree
  (tags: riaa rights music piracy)
• Ze Frank on the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Strike | Laughing Squid
  Ze Frank took a break from his long hiatus and posted a video today about the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, which began this morning.
  (tags: wga zefrank)
• Striking writers in talks to launch Web start-ups – Los Angeles Times
  Dozens of striking film and TV writers are negotiating with venture capitalists to set up companies that would bypass the Hollywood studio system and reach consumers with video entertainment on the Web.
  (tags: culture economics writers startups strike WGA)
• Race on to create studio model for the online market
  And the advertising dollars are following. “As we talk to brands, they’re excited about the opportunity and increasingly interested in how to target the right people and have the data about them,” says Berman, Ford Focus is advertising on “Roommates.”
  (tags: entertainment hollywood studio ford onlineTV)