In short, in the US, depending on the exact terms of your employment contract your employer can fire you at any time for any reason it likes
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It's not about whether it will happen. The pressure placed on employees is all about the fact that it merely can.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Well that's compassionate of you.
Also a little victim blamey?
Like, maybe the Mouse could decide it doesn't need to lobby to make copyright law grossly unfair? And, if it does, maybe use the trillions of dollars in the bank instead of placing expectations on their overworked and underpaid staff?
edited 26th Feb '16 4:08:43 PM by unnoun
Again, they are. They're not hunting down the employees and flipping them upside-down and shaking out their money from their pockets. They're asking for voluntary donations. I heavily disagree with their whole copywrite stance, but, unless shown proof otherwise, I refuse to believe that their request for optional donations was made with the intention of employees to be shamed and for their job security to be threatened if they don't.
It's not naivety, I just don't see the benefit, from a purely logical, business, perspective. The amount donated per employee ($6,000>) cannot make up for a lowering of productivity due to distraction, moral decreasing, and possible lay-offs.
I also want to point out that a benevolent employer simply has no reason to ask in the first place when they have that much money.
One huge problem here is that Disney have absolutely no way to justify asking their employees in the first place, so even ignoring the pressure it puts on its employees, it's totally a dick move to even ask for donations. They don't need the donations. A rich person asking a middle income person for money is a total dick move.
This is about Disney trying to defend their copyrights even more than they already are, right? Setting aside the ethical problem of pressuring employees and that Disney doesn't even need contributions to run its own legal battles, exactly why would it be good to let Disney screw with copyright law even more than they already have?
Edit: Oh and hi. I kind of watch DBZ abridged more than actual DBZ stuff so it's odd that I wasn't already here.
edited 27th Feb '16 2:37:17 PM by Arha
It has basically gotten to the point that you can track when copyright is going to be extended again by looking at when the Classic Disney Shorts would otherwise become public domain.
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