[i.h]

To be fair, it’s not “all for nothing”, he’s still getting his agreed pay cheque for the job, as are all the cast and crew. That doesn’t make it any less disheartening to see your work not released for the public to enjoy, of course.

But it presumably also makes it more difficult to advertise for future work, since you'd be expected to have some sort of portfolio which will be made harder when significant parts of it have effectively been erased. But in terms of pay - if they agreed a proportion of profit or revenue, how does that work when it'll never go on sale or exhibition?

In an ideal world this would mean creatives would simply stop working with WBD until they end the practice, but consolidation is going to make that more difficult.