Opinion: California is making the writing life even harder (via latimesopinion)
AB 5 was written to minimize these effects; for example, multiple stories about the same event may count as a single “submission.” But the market doesn’t care. Facing ever narrower margins, media companies prefer to avoid the time and cost of parsing the law and any risk of running afoul of it. They can turn to the many good writers who live in the other 49 states.
The other problem with the law is that it doesn’t sufficiently take into account the variety of categories of writers, and how they overlap. The assumption is that we all want a full-time job with an employer. In some cases, that’s true. Gonzalez, a former labor organizer, toldthat she was alarmed by the attack on journalists’ unions with many reporters having been sacked unwillingly. A lot of freelancers would love to be staff writers.
bestsellers. I, like others, write on a freelance basis as I attempt to put together income from a variety of sources while retaining my independence. Crimping even a minor revenue stream hurts the ability to create. For many years after I started to write books full-time, I supplemented my income by writing catalog and jacket-flap copy for a publisher, often submitting as many as 60 pieces a year. I don’t know if I could have finished my first two books if AB 5 had come along and frightened away that client. Does the new law apply to that kind of marketing work? It might, unless the work “depends primarily on the invention, imagination, or talent of the employee,” to quote the text of the law.
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