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28 Feb 2008, 4:47 am
The Writers Guild of America approved a new contract with networks and studios – the final step in ending the three-month strike that forced millions of Americans to do something other than watch TV. 93.6% of WGA members voted in favor of the contract. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 8:18 pm
The Writers Guild membership has just voted by a 92.5% margin to end their three-month strike. [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 9:38 pm
The Writers Guild of Canada posts its views on Bill C-32. [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 9:27 am
The Writers' Guild Responds with Predictable Petulance -- Analysis Later Now that the DGA has reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP, the terms of the deal will be carefully analyzed and evaluated by the WGA, the WGA's Negotiating Committee, the WGAW Board of Directors, and the WGAE Council. [read post]
22 Sep 2005, 4:35 am
This is yet another case of how new technologies challenges the rights accorded by old laws that needs structural change to balance the needs of authors and creators and public interest.TechWeb News Writers Guild Confident In Suing Google [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 6:05 am
Our membership has voted, and writers can go back to work," said Patric Verrone, President of the Writers Guild of America West. [read post]
14 Aug 2009, 12:43 am
Writers Guild Canada is urging its members to speak out on copyright. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 11:05 am
According to TheWrap, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) have asked IMDb, the popular Internet movie database, to remove the birth dates of its members (SAG is only asking that the site remove birth dates for its members who are not yet stars). [read post]
10 Aug 2022, 5:58 am
The Writers Guild has scored a $42 million arbitration award against Netflix for unpaid residuals. [read post]
3 Feb 2008, 8:25 pm
The Directors Guild closed their deal over these issues last month but many striking writers (and SAG members) criticized that deal for not going far enough on streaming. [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 3:30 pm
The Writers Guild of America strike is now entering its third month. [read post]
16 Jan 2008, 9:39 am
The Directors Guild has been negotiating with the studios and networks for the last several days. [read post]
1 Mar 2008, 9:32 pm
Attorneys' Office of the Central District of California tells that "[a] former assistant administrator of a Writers Guild fund and another woman were charged" "with conspiring to embezzle $17,228.61 by creating a bogus beneficiary... [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 6:00 am
Jonathan Handel Citing the guild agreement’s “separated rights” provisions, the union is seeking to enjoin the new play and obtain damages on behalf of the screenwriter of the 2000 movie that began the franchise.read more [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 11:59 pm
Balloting closed Jan. 24 on the wide-ranging outline of negotiating priorities, but the guild has not yet announced the results of the vote. [read post]
20 Sep 2005, 1:16 pm
[JURIST] The Authors Guild [advocacy website], an advocacy organization for published writers, together with a former Poet Laureate, a Lincoln biographer and a children's book author, Tuesday sued search engine and advertising giant Google [press release; complaint, PDF] alleging "massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers. [read post]
3 Jan 2016, 3:30 pm
[December 31, 2015] “the Authors Guild, the nation’s largest and oldest society of professional writers, filed a petition with the Supreme Court of the United States requesting that it review a lower court ruling that allowed Google, Inc. to copy millions of copyright-protected books without asking for authors’ permission or paying them. [read post]
19 Nov 2007, 6:14 pm
Today, they authorized the Writers Guild to call a strike on their behalf. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 8:15 am
Members of the Writers Guild of America members voted overwhelmingly to lift the union's strike order, allowing the industry to jump-start stalled production of numerous TV sitcoms and dramas. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 10:13 am
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the major talent agencies are headed for a showdown. [read post]
