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Comment on Generating Revenue: How Casual and Interactive Games Can Make Money by Wychowanie Dzieci

Wychowanie Dzieci — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:28:49 +0000

Hello! This is my 1st comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out and tell you I truly enjoy reading your blog. Can you recommend any other blogs/websites/forums that cover the same topics?

Comment on Generating Revenue: How Casual and Interactive Games Can Make Money by fantrust

fantrust — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:42:02 +0000

Social gaming, which you mention is a burgeoning field, is truly fascinating. Its fanbase is expected to surge to 250M in 2009 from 50M the previous year.

FanTrust has just released a white paper on social gaming, which includes an overview of
* Market opportunities
* Monetization tactics
* Fan favorites

Read or download “Socialize Me — FanTrust’s Fast Facts To Help You Tap Today’s Billion Dollar Social Games Sector” at http://www.fantrust.com/2009/10/19/socialize-me-tap-todays-billion-dollar-social-games-sector-with-fantrust/

Comment on Legal Issues: Multi-Platform Media and Emerging Technologies by klashton

klashton — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:58:59 +0000

I’d like to rectify any impression that the above article may have given about at least one union’s terms re both digital distribution and original online content. Each union has different terms and conditions and they are evolving so please check with the relevant union when budgeting and planning.

The Writers Guild of Canada treats digital distribution as another form of distribution of a television program. Revenues go into a pot with other standard distribution revenues and a royalty is paid (after deduction of the cost of the budget). If there are no revenues – no payment is required. Even if there are revenues it takes a while before there are sufficient revenues for a royalty to be payable.

For original digital content script fees are fully negotiable. At no time are writers prohibited from performing more than one role. We just ask that the writing services be clearly identified and separately compensated in any contract.

So you can see that there’s no reason to avoid using highly skilled professional writing talent. They are very affordable and quite good at what they do.

Kelly Lynne Ashton
Director of Policy
Writers Guild of Canada