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This
week's answer:
Co-dependent
No More Screenwriters
I most certainly can, kind sir. Your words have moved us all here and we, inspired by your
courage to speak out against the tyranny of not selling
screenplays, have set down the following (including
passages of the same):
IN SCREENWRITERS’ CONGRESS, July
4, 2007.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen
united Screenwriters of America,
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all
men can create equal screenplays, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Screenwriter
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of selling a Screenplay.--That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the screenwriters,
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
Screenwriters to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, or
structure (to use a screenwriter’s term – and he has
the inalienable right to use that term for the very
same)
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united
Screenwriters of America, in General Congress,
Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world
for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name,
and by Authority of the good Screenwriters, solemnly
publish and declare, That these United Screenwriters
are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent
Screenwriters; that they are Absolved from all
Allegiance to Producers who don’t pay them for their
screenplays,... And for the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of divine
Providence and WGA, we mutually pledge to each other our
Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor (but not our
residuals or points).
Thomas DcH Jefferson
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