PLAYDIGM Entertainment Licensing & Branding

Thanks to Nicolas Chartier of Voltage Pictures, one of the producers of the Oscar winning picture THE HURT LOCKER, suing pirates has become the hot topic once again.  This entertainment war between the makers of films and the audience who don’t pay to watch them, is about to go to another level.

Being a creator of entertainment products, I am a firm believer in copyright and making a living from one’s art/work.  It takes quite a bit of time to write a screenplay and even more to produce it.  You wouldn’t want to produce something you made and then not be able to earn fair market value from it so you can exist and continue to do what you love.

I don’t go into a store and borrow/steal things because I know that it ain’t worth getting caught.  Aside from the fine there is the criminal record which is worse than any monetary loss.  Is it fair to sue someone if they buy a DVD of their favorite movie or a CD of a great band and lend it to a friend? In this case I don’t believe they are a pirate.  They are not making a profit from this transaction. You can sue them (you can sue anybody these days for almost anything) but it is unlikely you will win.

It is my opinion, that to solve this piracy problem, go after those websites that upload copyright material illegally and ensure they can not offer people to download this material.  Are they not the ones who are breaching the creators copyright?  This makes more sense and could be achieved by getting the Internet Providers to ensure this is not being done.  Sure it is a complicated and expensive process, but suing someone for thousands of dollars because they (may or may not) have stolen a DVD/CD off the internet is not proportional to the crime.  If you stole an item from a store the fine is directly related to the worth of the item stolen and again, the criminal record is the worse part.

The entertainment industry needs to go after those that offer their goods online – not the viewers.  I have bought the Beatles White Album too many times and copied it from record to cassette tape then to CD and MP3 digital files.   I also will be lending my cassette of Alice Cooper tunes to a friend – does that make me a Pirate?  Or him?

I shake my head and wonder how all this will play out.  Either way, hope you all are rocking to good tunes and enjoying great movies because it is what helps make life worth living!  Mind you, if you do come across one of my entertainment products – please pay for it.  lol

Sandford Tuey

info@Playdigm.com

If you have the ability and talent to program code for a Facebook/My Space type game then here is an opportunity that comes along once in a lifetime.

There are many kinds of income but basically they all can be summed up into three types:

1)  Employment Income – If you are an employee or  work at a job where you must be in an office or do some sort of task (yes plumbers, electricians, doctors, dentists and accountants fall into this category), then you must show up or you don’t get paid.   The limitations to employment  income are obvious, if you are sick or don’t show up for work – you don’t get paid.  There are also only so many hours you can work in a day, only so many patients, clients or teeth you can pull in a day – so this form of income is limited.  This type of income is one of the highest taxed by government.

2) Business Income – This revenue stream is much better than employment income especially if you own the company.  However,  there is a lot more work for you to do.  Dealing with employees and their paperwork, tax documentation, the government regulations, lawyers, accountants, banks and other time consuming tasks.  Sure the revenue produced is taxed more friendly than employee income (especially dividends), but unless you have management in place to run your company when you are away, you need to be in the office to keep the business profitable.

3) Passive Income – Of course receiving money for something you did or created years ago and now receive royalty checks, dividends from shares or any other revenue where you only have to check your bank account to see if the deposit came in, is in my opinion, the best form of income.  After you create a Facebook/My Space game, or a product, a song, a film or some other thing that generates money where a portion automatically goes into your pocket without you having to do much else other than spend it – that is the kind of income everyone should be thinking about earning.

Passive income is the kind of income you could be earning but only if you have the talent and the computer coding skills to produce a Facebook/My Space type game similar to Kingdoms of Camelot and Mafia Wars.  If you can code this type of online game then contact me at info@Playdigm.com.

Become a co-owner in the next project you work on instead of just an employee who watches everyone else benefit long term.  Receive passive income for the rest of your life and your childrens children’s lifetime…

Send your qualifications and skills to info@Playdigm.com  and make sure you put Attention Sandford Tuey in the subject line.

I look forward to discussing this project with you.