[Tango-L] Buenos Aires Tango Festivals - Criticism

[Trini y Sean (PATangoS)]

I don't fully understand why the Argentine Actors Union
feel they would have a claim on "professional dancers".  I
don't believe the Screen Actors Guild have a claim on the
professional ballroom dancers.  I would think the publicity
dancers would get from the championship is pretty good
compensation enough.

Trini de Pittsburgh

--- Alberto Gesualdi <clambat2001 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> Enclosed herewith is TITO PALUMBO'S PUBLISHER'S LETTER
> edited in 
> B. A. TANGO – Buenos Aires Tango magazine, Nº 184, June
> 2007.
> 
>  If you think that the topic is important, please, answer
> us to abatango at yahoo.com.ar
> 
> and/or forward it to your acquaintances and friends.
>  
> 
>  PUBLISHER'S LETTER
>  Dear reader friend:
>  
>  Some readers propose the creation of different
> categories in the 
> dance championships organized by the city government; one
> category 
> for amateurs and another for professionals. And I am
> going to give 
> my opinion; I do not think that this proposal will become
> a fact. 
>  
>  The diffusion and sale of the dancers' filmed 
> material is a business. And dancers do not obtain any
> income from 
> the revenues generated by this business. In other words,
> videos and 
> DVDs are sold; rights are assigned for the broadcasting
> in the 
> country and abroad; movies are shown in theaters; but the
> true 
> main characters, the dancers, do not receive a single
> cent of the 
> money collected from these commercial activities. 
>  
>  Provisions 35 in the Metropolitan Championship 
> Regulations and 04 in the World Championship Regulations
> stipulate 
> that the General Office of Festivals of the City reserves
> to itself 
> the right to record all the phases in these championships
> and to 
> retain the ownership of those records –as well as to do
> any type of 
> business with them– WITHOUT PROVIDING DANCERS WITH A
> SINGLE BUCK AS 
> FEES OR REMUNERATION. 
>  
>  If in the championships it was created a category 
> for Professional Dancers, then the Argentine Actors
> Association, the 
> union which represents these workers, could claim for the
> right to 
> the corresponding remuneration. This organization' s
> additional 
> interest would be due to the fact that they would receive
> a 
> percentage. And in this way, the exploitation of others'
> work that 
> the authorities of this city are carrying out in
> agreement with 
> pseudo businessmen would be finished. 
>  
>  While amateur dancers and professional ones are 
> mixed up, it is difficult for the union to find good
> arguments to 
> get involved. 
>  * * *
>  I feel shame on behalf of others because the 
> associations that gather dancers –though they are not
> unions– do not 
> care about claiming for the image, the interpreters and
> the 
> choreographic creation rights corresponding to their
> members and, 
> besides that, sponsor and actively cooperate with
> official 
> authorities to carry out this dispossession. 
>  * * *
>  With a tanguero embrace, I remain very truly yours 
> sincerely
>  
>  
> TITO PALUMBO
>  
> Publisher
> 
> 
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