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Lollapalooza schmooza
The hefty price tag on this year's lollapalooza cock-blocked me from attending. It's okay, she can go cavort with her selfish little friends and I'll just sit here at home. That leaves me to reminisce about last year. Ah, good times. Holy hell, there was a lot of good music.
The video's from last year, Jesus etc., probably one of my favorite Wilco songs. You can't see me but I'm the girl trying to con her way to the front of the crowd.
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Hi Tamatam I saw on the NFT website that you've written for them too and thought you might be interested in this:
Dear fellow writers of Not for Tourists, if you signed up to write for NFT like I did, after seeing an ad in craigslist, then you probably accepted the $50 for 10 articles compensation. I see from some of your bios that we have some very intelligent people in our group. Perhaps some of you like me were blinded by the promise of exposure, which is like a drug for creative people. However, we need to be rational. NFT has totally ripped us off. Granted these are just restaurant reviews but the pathetic pay combined with the standard that we helped to set, by accepting such low compensation, (which I was told by Craig Nelson won’t even get sent to me for another few months) is undercutting the value of our craft.
I encourage you to join the National Writer’s Union (NWU) and defend our rights for: “ Minimum range of $1 to $3 per word
for one-time rights.
Additional pay for additional use (such
as syndication, Web, reprints, anthologies).
An end to all-rights and work-for-hire contracts.
Writers retain their copyright
and creative control.
Full payment for a story upon submission,
not publication.
Full payment for a submitted story,
regardless if it is killed.
Writing on spec is unfair. If publishers
want articles, they have to pay for them.
Indemnity clauses that protect writers” (http://nwu.org/nwu/index.php?cmd=showAsset&asset_id=77).
I haven’t joined yet but will once I have the money. NWU also has a jobs listing page with employers that accept these basic standards. We also need to spread the word so that companies like NFT don’t get away with this sort of thing in the future. I would have liked it if someone had let me know about these standards before I accepted the contract with them. I am posting versions of this letter on my blogs: http://sqntoday.wordpress.com/ and http://bestloverinparadise.wordpress.com/. The metatags will alert people who search for work with NFT and similar entities via the internet in the future.
Lastly, if any of you have blogs, which I bet you do, I’d like to collaborate with you on at least spreading this compensation standards’ information. If we click creatively, we may even find it in our best interest to give links to each other’s blogs and help each other to get advertising.
Best,
Paul