Director Lee Daniels: Unpaid Internships Are "Invaluable" In Hollywood

www.buzzfeed.com: Earlier this week, a Federal judge ruled that the use of unpaid interns on the production of Darren Aronofsky’s 2010 film Black Swan was illegal, and that the two former interns that filed the complaint were entitled to a class action trial against 20th Century Fox, which produced the movie. The ruling, two years in the making, sent shockwaves around Hollywood, which has long offered young, aspiring filmmakers glimpses of show business in return for free labor. It is a business that emphasizes dues paying and ladder-climbing in order to maintain its rigid power structure. Labor advocates and commentators in the media celebrated the ruling as a strike for worker rights, but some in Hollywood are defending the practice.