W&DW Congress support spinal tap litigation in seeking share in success of their creation

The following resolution was unanimously adopted at the Writers & Directors Worldwide Congress in Venice in November 2017:

“Writers & Directors Worldwide salute the bold stand by the creators of the beloved film comedy This is Spinal Tap. In bringing a formal legal challenge the creators of the music & the film are simply seeking the payment they were promised by contract. Too often we, the talent, do not share in the success of our work. We welcome all challenges to opaque accounting, which symbolizes longstanding abusive corporate practices against the livelihoods of creative talent. We hope that the “Fairness Rocks ” banner, that has come to be associated with this legal action, can help our own efforts to unite the world’s different creative disciplines.  Authors of film, music, and the written word together with the performers, who give life to the work, are the bedrock of global culture and deserve respect, reward and fairness. “