The Economic Efficiency of Streaming for Writers

Roxanne Jones: It used to be that residuals from the reuse of your material counted for a much more significant plurality of your writing income than it does now. Now with so many more shows being produced and so many fewer succeeding, if anything, it would be economically efficient to tie more heavily a writer's salary to the backend," she says. "I can understand where the studios and the writers are fighting about what the level of compensation should be"