Jon Burlingame editorWhat does the future hold for the Film Musicians Secondary Markets Fund? Like so many aspects of a rapidly changing media business, that’s hard to predict.When union musicians struck the networks and studios in 1980, the hope was to gain residual payments for reruns of network TV series, something that had been overlooked in earlier negotiations with producers dating back to the 1960s.
But they failed, and have never been able to achieve that goal in any contract talks since.Streaming services that produce their own series are very often a “dead end” in terms of residuals, because shows that air exclusively on Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus or other services – and don’t pass on to a secondary market like DVD or Blu-Ray –.
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