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submitted 1 year ago by Domille@sh.itjust.works to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

There's always some greedy bastard trying to gatekeep the ladder while exploiting as many workers and creators as possible along the way.

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

United Artists came about as a reaction to this, founded by some of the biggest stars at the time: Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and others.

[-] Domille@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

another thing TIL!

[-] random_character_a@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Is this the reason why it's so hard to find what are names of those female singers in those hit songs from famous DJs.

[-] sailing_bookdragon@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

and this is why the producers union does have an agreement, but the Actors and the writers unions have not?

[-] wabafee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Domille@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

They were right not to credit the actors?

[-] sunbunman@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

No, the latter half

[-] wabafee@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There thinking were right about the leverage the actors get by crediting them. As for not crediting obviously it's wrong.

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