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DGA has reached a deal with producers!

The Directors Guild of America has just reached a groundbreaking deal with the AMPTP (who the Writer's Guild are currently striking against). Directors and their team will all get more money for content distributed on the internet. We can only hope the writers make a similar deal to get what they deserve!

For those who are scratching their heads at all the acronyms and organizations I just mentioned, I'll break it down for you:

The Director's Guild of America (DGA) is a labor union here in the United States that represents the interests of the directors. It's known as a "craft union" because it represents a single profession instead of a wide range of them.
As you probably already know, content that directors create has not only ended up on the internet, but is used by studios for a wide variety of reasons.
The Writer's Guild of America (WGA) is a similar union, but it represents the writers here. Writers are currently on strike because the producers and studios refuse to pay them more for the content they write that appears on the internet.

Ok, so on to the story:

Variety just announced that the Directors Guild of America has reached a tentative three-year deal with the AMPTP. The new deal has three major components: establishing DGA jurisdiction over programs produced for distribution on the Internet, boosting the residuals formula for paid Internet downloads by double the current rate, and establishing residual rates for ad-supported streaming and use of clips on the Internet. Gil Cates, chair of the DGA's negotiation committee, says: "Two words describe this agreement -- groundbreaking and substantial. The gains in this contract for directors and their teams are extraordinary -- and there are no New Journal Entryrollbacks of any kind."

Now we can just hope that the WGA will resume talks and get a similar deal.

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Comments (3)

	"I enjoy the way Carlton dances.": 01/18/2008 11:50 AM I don't know much about the situation, but from the things that directly afftect me, ie,. the talk shows sucking ass...it seems that the producers...whoever they are should make a deal and quick...if they want poepl to watch their shows...but I don't watch much tv anyway, (the writers should get more money! I watch all my tv online! I never thought how that would effect anything really, cool.) I think they should definately get more money, I mean, I watch all my tv on the computer, and so do most of the people I know, so that means alot of people probably watch most of their tv online now...not just me...so they should definately get paid! I can't believe they don't ghet paid, that's ridiculous....
	beautythatwillhorrify: 01/18/2008 1:26 PM Glad to hear it.
	gfallenangel: 05/25/2008 8:57 PM Well, we will see how that works out for them.