Jacob Ward
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1,814 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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And I didn't really realize how cool until I went to lunch one day with a friend of mine years ago when I was a magazine editor.
And he told me the story of having written a script and submitting it to a famous actor's production company and then watching that actor go ahead and make the movie without giving him any credit or involving him or certainly paying him in any way.
And I was very cynical at the time.
I was in a kind of beaten down part of my career.
And I remember thinking, man, you must have gotten screwed, huh?
And he laughed and he said, nope.
He said he had registered it with the Writers Guild, which gave him copyright.
And then he had an attorney send a demand letter to the company and he got a big settlement.
And he said, that's how I bought our apartment.
I raised two kids there thanks to this.
Copyright in the United States is a big deal.
It's constitutionally enshrined.
We, in our constitution, talk about the need to facilitate the progress of science and the useful arts by basically giving exclusive ownership over a work to a creator, an author, a musician, a painter, whatever it is.
But at the same time, we don't give them the right to control the idea that
we give them the right to have ownership over the expression of the idea.
And that balance is a really important thing because it means you can't just say, I own the idea for the internet or for flowers on a canvas.
Instead, what you own is your execution of that idea.
And that is how we have, in part, been such an incredibly creative country is because we both protect creators' rights, but don't make it such that you can lock up creativity for all time.
Why am I telling you all this?
Well, because right now the Trump administration seems to be getting ready to do away with a bunch of the copyright protections that people like my dad and my friend and millions of artists and creative people have enjoyed all this time.
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