Here’s the chart:<\/p>\n My aim then, is to hold the residuals or ongoing payments, somewhere just slightly below 10% of my total income, and another 10-12% in one-off pay in any given year. \u00a0 Residuals can be adjusted simply by adding more or less in the way of new content in any given year. \u00a0If my income [after taxes] is soaring, I will make more videos that year than usual, with more cast members and locations than usual, and post them online. \u00a0If not, I won’t. \u00a0The numbers were revised downwards slightly with the goal of making more future video projects per year, [with larger casts] more likely to be feasible over the next half century.<\/p>\n Note that my plan is for 40% of my post tax income to go to making new videos & video games – perhaps 20% as casting budget and 20% as production budget. \u00a0Comics and games use the same payment logic for contributing members that videos do. \u00a0So if you voice acted or did FMV or simply had your name\/resemblance used in a comic book or video game, that is counted as if it were a video. \u00a0Then there’s the other 10% or so in residuals… which makes the total 50%. \u00a05% is disposable income focused on entertainment or for allocation in case something else costs more than anticipated. \u00a0Another 33% covers core operating costs of the network, like web hosting, and domain renewals, as well as maintaining and expanding the sale product lines on which the revenue depends. \u00a0In other words, an ongoing supply of shipping materials, canvas, paints, other bills, etc. \u00a0The final 18% is saved up or invested in some way so I have a reserve in case it’s needed later.<\/p>\n The video channel itself, launches in a few weeks. \u00a0It won’t contain much initially, and mostly the cast will just be me, but it marks the start of something bigger.<\/p>\n I’ve toyed with the notion of simply bypassing cast members I can’t reach and posting videos anyway [in a space where they have no way to generate revenue of any kind] but it seems there’s no legal benefit to doing so. \u00a0I might as well run ads for my services, with the content, and hold the actor’s earnings in a safe place until they finally come out of the ‘woodwork’ and become reachable again – at which point I’ll immediately offer them the money their video earned, hopefully pre-empting the question of ‘why did you release this without my explicit written permission and make money off of it?’<\/p>\n My rule now is as follows: \u00a0I will go ahead and post videos over time, even if one or two random people in it are inaccessible and cannot be reached by phone, email, or any other means. \u00a0I will tally up all actors’ earnings on every project annually and pay them. \u00a0If they are unreachable, I’ll hold that cash in an organized folder or envelope somewhere secure, marked with the actor’s name. \u00a0If and when I find them, I will ask them to sign and will pay them. \u00a0They may ask for the video or alternately their scene in the video to be pulled – I’ll remind them that it will upset the audience that likes the video and the other actors who did sign, and who do want the content online, but that if they insist the content be pulled, it will be.<\/p>\n What about the signatures? \u00a0Legal documents?<\/p>\n I am debating how best to handle that; I like the idea of the digital signature, but the document was way too complicated and long last time and I’m trying to pare it down and make it clearer and leaner for future use. \u00a0I’m using eSignGenie for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay, quick notes: The Troop 4 party went really well. \u00a0Terrific food, and I got the two new videos done fairly well by the deadline, so that’s awesome. \u00a0Some of the audio needed work and the animation was spotty on the cartoon, but other than that it turned out great. 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