AW: Royalties

[Cord Wiljes]

Gary Leach wrote:

> Gemstone, a licensee with a 
> very specifically defined license, pays considerable 
> royalties to the one creator that contractually counts - 
> Disney. And that, also by contractual terms, is the sole 
> creator to which Gemstone can - and, of course, must - pay 
> royalties of any kind. 

If I understand you correctly the legal creator of any Disney comics is
the Disney company and all writers and artists just do work-for-hire?
Wouldn't this mean that anyone who creates Disney comics (in the U.S.,
in Italy, in Denmark or anywhere else) should be directly paid by
Disney? Or is the payment the publisher gives to the creator part of the
royalties he has to pay to Disney? So with whom does the artist/writer
speak if he wants a raise? The Disney company or his publisher?

Cord