I'm also a writer, and I'm currently looking for a lawyer to help me sue Robert Cooper, the producer of Stargate Atlantis, for failure to pay the agreed upon percentage for a number of core concepts of mine that he used in the series after a consultation with me. Believe it or not, truth is stranger than fiction, and details are on my website with more to come in a short film I'm making on the subject.
The agreed fee? 15-20% of any profits made by Cooper for ideas originating from his consultation with me.
American entertainment companies are ripping Canadian artists off everyday, and there is no real enforcement of multimillion dollar copyright law.
Not unusual, think about how many people are actually charged with hate speech laws compared to how much of that talk you hear everyday in Canada.
For centuries this has been going on.
Rich dicks find some cool artist, and instead of paying fairly for works that will obviously be worth money, they actually spend money to bring the artist down, so they can make off with the artwork at a garage sale.
This guy Robert Cooper could have paid me a fee up front, or he could honor the legally binding business agreement we have, but instead he spends time and money escaping from this responsibility to me.
How many Canadian artists and musicians are there you think in the same boat? Someone with american money behind them rips off a canadian artist and there is no one to go to, a poor Canadian artist has to slog it out and try to convince someone else to represent them in court to get paid for their own work.
Meanwhile, the americans are taking the best Canadian work in film, music, and writing, and they are stealing it straight up.
The Canadian gov't thinks its fine for local cops to be beating up and rousting homeless people, but a Canadian artist gets ripped off for serious money and not a single cop will look into it.
Big building contracts to organized crime for constructing huge arts facilities that rich folk can stand and hobnob in, but actual real on the ground canadian artists are dying in poverty while someone with the resources and means of production scoots off with their work unchallenged.
It happens every day now in the The False North Emasculated and Chained.