JMS: Scripts ?

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From: jbonetati at aol.com (JBONETATI)
Date: 18 Feb 2000 17:52:51 -0700
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JMS,

I read about the Scripts from the Lot site in the B5 magazine #20 and it looks
like a great idea. I'm going to order Ms. Avery's scripts right away! Yours I
already have <g>.

My question is about the scripts that have popped up occasionally on the
various auction sites.  They say that these are actual shooting scripts rather
than copies. Does buying them deprive the script writer of any income or is the
same as buying any other piece of memorabillia?

I'd never buy copied scripts but it never occurred to me that buying the used
items might be wrong. Please let me know.

Thanks,

Jan


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 18 Feb 2000 22:31:04 -0700
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>My question is about the scripts that have popped up occasionally on the
>various auction sites.  They say that these are actual shooting scripts
>rather
>than copies. Does buying them deprive the script writer of any income or is
>the
>same as buying any other piece of memorabillia?

If it's an actual production script kept afterward by crew or cast or others,
and then sold...no.  If it's a mass produced copy sold by one of these script
houses, then yeah, they're taking money from the writers involved, who under
the WGA's Separation of Rights provision own the physical script.

 jms

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