Should some people get paid over and over for the same job?

Question

Should some people get paid over and over for the same work? When we do a job we get paid and that's the end of it.

But, under the 'intellectual property' laws, some people (usually big business corporations) get paid endlessly for work done. Virtually for ever. Repeated showings of Hollywood films and TV programme repeats are cases in point.

Should we change the law to make things fairer?

Answer 1

These laws were designed to make things fairer... otherwise people (writers, actors) would get a one-of payment and the corporate bosses (who technically did barely any of the work) get the rest of the profit - when someone buys a movie, someone's got to get the money from it...

One small question - why did you choose to post this in Gender and Womens studies? Surely either buisness, or economics, might give a better answer? Because people who like those areas probably understand the concepts behind the laws better.

Answer 2

yes to your question.

foe example: A and B is doing the same job. A has been there for over 10 years and B just join the company. A is getting a higher paid than B is ok cos A has proved he/she is loyal to the company.

how would you feel if you work in a company for years and a new commer get paid the same as you???

Answer 3

Smoke em if ya got em.  I say get as much money as you can.  If they want to pay me a thousand times for the same work, I'll take it and laugh all the way to the bank.

Answer 4

That would mean the tv companies would keep on making money from screening films but the writers and actors who made it wouldn't.

That doesn't seem fair.

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Answer 5

Are you talking about Royalties?  They are "fair".

If I write a book, then I and my estate, will continue to share the profits as long as the book is being sold.

If I write a play, I will get the Royalties as long as the play is being performed.

If I write a piece of music that is used in an advertisement to sell a product, then why shouldn't I share in the profit?

There are many sources of income, some people get paid to do a job, some people get money for allowing other people to use their property (holiday cottages or apartment buildings), the choice is yours.

Answer 6

The way I see it, every showing of a film, for instance, is a new show with a new audience, keeping cinema staff (or the TV people if it is a TV screening) employed.  And of course it is a matter of supply and demand.  If nobody wanted to watch it, it would have no value.

The gripe I have is with the people who 'own' fishing rights.  The fish don't belong to them (many species come in themselves from the sea), nor the water (hey, the river started far upstream in another area, perhaps even another country,  and their share flowed past long ago!!!), the land on either side of the river bank belongs to the farmers owning the land, and yet those people claim ownership and we have to pay them for fishing licences  .....   now there's an injustice.  Folk wanting to be  -  and getting  -  paid for something that is not theirs in the first place ......

I'm not an angler, but I think something should be changed to be fairer.

Answer 7

These people get paid more because they work hard. Big business owners went to college for years and worked endlessly to be where they are today. Actors and actresses who get paid for doing a movie, "virtually forever", spent practically their whole life working to achieve stardom. So if we changed laws to "make things fairer" that would push our country towards, well communism if you will. If a factory worker thinks its not fair that a big business owner gets paid forever, maybe they should of went to college and got an education. In the United States, 1% of the richest population, owns 38% of the money. This doesn't happen by chance. These are the smartest people in our country. The ones who went to school for years upon years and worked to gain what they have today. You are what you want to be.

Answer 8

Why should one person profit from another's work? If I spend a million dollars of my own money to make a movie, then why should someone else come along and profit from it who didn't invest a dime? I think that the situation you've quoted is very fair.