I know this is a huge issue right now, and personally even though I'm not involved I have been going back and forth on how I feel about it. I mean, writers absolutely should get royalties on Itunes and downloaded shows/movies. It's the same issue (with different terms) as earlier this year when writers sued the New York Times for only buying print rights to articles, but putting them up online as well.
There are so many different rights these days. Each media is a new one-- Print, electronic, audio, merchandising... How would you, as a writer feel if a magazine bought your story for a print anthology (paying you an advance and then royalties), then released the anthology in ebook form and said that those sales don't count toward your royalties at all. That's what the strike is about.
It didn't really hit home for me until I read
this blog. If you want an inside opinion to judge for yourself, that's a good place to start.
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