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DGA Deal Ratified By Members - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 20 Feb 2008 10:01 PM PST

The Directors Guild deal with the producers, with the major focus being on digital media, has now been ratified by the members. This was the deal that set the grounds…

Writers Vote To End Strike; New Contract Still Must Be Ratified - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 12 Feb 2008 08:40 PM PST

It ended right at the 100-day mark: 92.5 percent of the 3,775 members of the Writers Guild of America who cast their ballots today voted to end their work stoppage.…

WGA Sends Deal Draft To Members; Writers Could Be Back At Work By Monday If There’s Enough Support - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sat 09 Feb 2008 10:27 AM PST

Movement in the writers’ strike overnight: An anticipated draft deal (see below) went out to the WGA membership early this morning for discussion at meetings being held in New York…

Writers And Studios To Restart Negotiations By Tuesday - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 19 Jan 2008 11:29 AM PST

A day after DGA reached an agreement with the producers, the Writers Guild is ready to get back on the table with AMPTP: WGA leaders plan to meet as early…

DGA-AMPTP Deal: Full List Of New Media Provisions - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 17 Jan 2008 06:56 PM PST

From the official fact sheet released by DGA, the full list of new media related provisions in the agreement (read our news story on the deal): New Media Jurisdiction over:…

Directors, Studios Reach ‘Tentative’ Three-Year Deal; Residual Rate For Paid Downloads ‘Doubled’ - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 17 Jan 2008 03:27 PM PST

Possibly setting some kind of record for speed, the Directors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have a three-year deal after just five days of official…

Directors Guild To Start Negotiations With Producers; Could Settle For Smaller Online Residuals - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 11 Jan 2008 07:51 PM PST

The Directors Guild of America will start contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers by tomorrow...this is before AMPTP has a deal with the writers guild.…

Uglier By The Day: WGA Files Labor Complaint Against Producer Alliance; Breaking Off Talks ‘Illegal’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 13 Dec 2007 11:09 PM PST

It is getting uglier by the day: the WGA has filed an unfair labor practices complaint claiming studios and AMPTP violated federal law by breaking off negotiations...it said that producers…