Great breakdown! Given that this is Lemmy and we trend toward more tech focused, people might gel better with Apple and Microsoft. If anyone is confused about what you wrote but the my understand big tech tax evasion, it is basically the same set of steps.
Big tech just doesn’t pay residuals.
Apple is well known for their Irish tax haven holding all of their IP and other rights so Apple can lease it back from themselves and account for pure profit as expenses. That’s also how Amazon pays little to no taxes. Or sometimes these company’s pay negative tax rates meaning they get government welfare to buy billionaires fudge rounds presumably, in conservative populist parlance.
Also to add on to my earlier comment, after some research it appears that the standard union contract prior to the strike has always been based on gross revenue instead of net. So it is consistent with why the WGA put this out.