After reaching a preliminary agreement with the major Hollywood studios, the union will lift the forceful measures during the ratification process.
After reaching a preliminary agreement with the major Hollywood studioshe writers union (WGA) voted in favor of lifting the force measures which they held for 148 days. In the absence of a ratification vote, workers will return to their jobs while that process is carried out.
Starting at midnight in Los Angeles (4 in the morning in Argentina), the scriptwriters in USA They will be able to resume their tasks. This includes not only the act of writing screenplays, but the reconstitution of writers’ tables, selling ideas or scripts, having business meetings and responding to production notesamong other tasks.
He new contract It is already being seen by specialists as a substantial victory for screenwriters in Hollywood. After very tense negotiations, studio representation (through the AMPTP) offered terms very close to the WGA’s demands on key points such as residuals through streaming, the formation of scriptwriters’ tables and the regulation of artificial intelligence.
The first effect of lifting the strike will probably be the return of the American talk show. Programs like The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon either Last Week Tonight with John Oliver They will return as soon as possible.
The keys to the agreement between screenwriters and Hollywood studios
One of the major points in dispute was the artificial intelligence regulation. In that sense, the WGA achieved that AI will not be able to write or rewrite literary material and that any text generated by AI will not be considered “source material”; that a screenwriter can choose to use AI but cannot be forced to use it; that studios must notify if writers are provided with material that was or contains text written by AI and that The WGA reserves the right to dispute that exploitation of writers’ material to train AI is prohibited.
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Source: Ambito
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