Rosanne Welch's video: 25 Selling Services not products from Why Researching Screenwriters has Always Mattered

A clip from my keynote speech (http://rosannewelch.com) at the 10th Screenwriters´(hi)Stories Seminar for the interdisciplinary Graduation Program in "Education, Art, and History of Culture", in Mackenzie Presbyterian University, at São Paulo, SP, Brazil, focused on the topic "Why Researching Screenwriters (has Always) Mattered." I was especially pleased with the passion these young scholars have toward screenwriting and it's importance in transmitting culture across the man-made borders of our world. Watch this entire presentation https://welchwrite.com/rwelch/2019/10/30/why-researching-screenwriters-has-always-mattered-10th-screenwritershistories-seminar-dr-rosanne-welch/ Transcript: In their mind, playwrights were to be respected because they sold a product -- they sold their play -- screenwriters sold a service like a maid or a car wash person. That isn't something they should own and that legal difference made the difference in how writers could have control of their work for years and years and years. At a certain point Dorothy Parker, again a very famous writer from New York, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which we think of as the group that gives away the Oscars and has the big party once a year, in fact, started a union for writers but the producers were in charge of the rules of the union for the writers and Dorothy parker said "Looking to the academy for representation was like trying to get laid in your mother's house. Someone was always watching in the parlor." How could you trust the producers to give the writers a good deal if it meant less money for them but they were trying to appease the writers.