JMS: Scripts ?

[Jms at B5]

>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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