re: #186 Dianna

And Peter Jackson did a screen play for which he was paid, I think. The actual work was done by Tolkien.

Though it was a lovely adaptation.

And that was fair. He knew what he was going to get paid, he was contracted to adapt it to the screen. And if there was still a copyright holder to the original work, then the Tolkien estate got something.

My stage adaptation of “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden’ was just published. For every sale of the acting addition of the script, I get 70 percent. For every performance of the play, with the permission of the publisher, I get 70 percent of the nightly fee to perform the work.

Of that money I get from performances or purchases of the script, I have to give 50 percent to Joanne Greenberg (well, first to her agent at William Morris, he’ll take something off the top of her cut).

By the time the money gets back to the writer, it’s pennies on the dollar.

And some people want me to give this away for free? Bullshit.