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Originally Posted by FanIn80
If you worked for a company who said they couldn't pay you because there's a pandemic, even though they were still getting paid by their clients... would you accept that?
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That isn't what the dispute is about. She got her fixed fee and her % of the theatrical gross.
A better analogy is a commission salesperson who gets lower commissions when sales are down. Even if sales are down because of a pandemic I'd expect lower commissions. Some of those jobs have a fixed/minimum condition, and presumably she got her fixed compensation.
The dispute is whether Disney had the right to release it on Disney+ or not. If the contract said they had to do a theatrical release then they probably owe her money. If it just said she didn't get a cut of streaming then they probably don't. I haven't seen the contract.