If what this email from the WGAW is true, and I assume it is because WGAW, I urge all my Guild member friends and TVWriter.Com visitors to pay attention and do the right thing.
Dear Members,
We are writing to alert you that WGA members are prohibited under Working Rule 8 from performing writing services for, or optioning or selling literary material to, Village Roadshow Productions Inc., or any affiliate thereof.
Surprise! Enjoy the least surprising headline of the day:
Campaigners for the protection of the rights of creatives have criticised a UK government proposal to let artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms on their works under a new copyright exemption.
Book publishers said the proposal put out for consultation on Tuesday was “entirely untested and unevidenced” while Beeban Kidron, a crossbench peer campaigning to protect artists’ and creatives’ rights, said she was “very disappointed”.
This email from the WGAW and WGAE clearly is a shot across the bow of the big studios. I’m sure that, for better or worse, there will be a lot more to come:
Dear Members,
Yesterday, the WGA sent the following letter to the CEOs of Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Paramount Global, NBCUniversal, Sony, Netflix, and Amazon MGM Studios:
Almost no one ever heard about this, and now it’s all over, “except for the shouting.”
Dear Members:
We are pleased to announce that Writers Guild of America members at PBS have reached a tentative agreement with management at PBS member stations WGBH, THIRTEEN and PBS SoCal.
Hmm, shit just got real. Today’s email from the WGA:
Dear Member,
On Monday, we notified you that WGA writers at PBS member stations authorized a strike if management does not agree to a fair new deal before the current WGA-Public Television Freelance Agreement expires at 8:59 p.m. Pacific Time / 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on November 21, 2024.