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13 Sep 2011, 4:00 am by Terry Hart
Many thanks to the MPAA blog for reporting on many of these and providing copies of the letters. 05/12/11 — Joint statement of theAmerican Federation of Musicians (AFM), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), Directors Guild of America (DGA), International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada… [read post]
17 Jul 2011, 9:21 pm by Tomassi Law Associates
Sacchi, a member of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Radio and Television Artists who starred in the film The Man Who Stole Bogarts Face and has appeared in numerous popular television series including Kojak and Fantasy Island. [read post]
26 May 2011, 9:30 am by Christina D. Frangiosa
The groups signing on to this Joint Statement are the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), Directors Guild of America (DGA), International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada (IATSE), International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG). … [read post]
16 May 2011, 8:11 am by Media Law Prof
AFTRA (the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) has put together a committee to work with the specially formed SAG task force to investigate whether a merger between the two unions would be both possible and beneficial. [read post]
12 May 2011, 3:02 pm by David Kravets
“As the guilds and unions that represent 400,000 creators, performers and craftspeople who create the multitude of diverse films, television programs and sound recordings that are enjoyed by billions of people around the world, we unequivocally support this bill which, by providing protection for our members’ work, clearly shows that our government will not condone or permit the wholesale looting of the American economy and American creativity and ingenuity… [read post]
1 May 2011, 7:34 am by Media Law Prof
The Screen Actors Guild has put together a task force to come up with a plan to create a merger between the union and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 11:04 am by Jon L. Gelman
Hindman, Appalachian State University; Kriste Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Laura Lovett,*University of Massachusetts Global Sweatshops and International Solidarity: The Case of Bangladesh Babul Akhter, Secretary of the Bangladesh Garments and Industrial Workers Federation; Mitch Cahn,President of Unionware; Bjorn Claeson, Sweatfree Communities, International Labor Rights Forum; Mark Levinson,* Workers United, SEIU Feminism, Low-Wage Workers,… [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 8:55 am by Nate Anderson, Ars Technica
Some of the supporters of this were after the American Federation of TV and Radio Artists, the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild. [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 7:44 am by Doug
“The role of lawsuits in solving the online theft problem is clearly limited,” wrote the coalition that included the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 3:24 am by Dan Frith
For example, New York enacted the Broadcast Employees Freedom to Work Act (BEFWA), which prohibits broadcast industry employers from including certain noncompete clauses in employment contracts.The statute’s enactment was due in part to successful lobbying by prominent entertainment labor unions including the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (AFTRA). [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 6:56 am by Erin Miller
Pacifica Foundation (1978), allowing non-criminal regulation on radio and television of “patently offensive words dealing with sex and excretion. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 2:19 pm by Jim Harper
American Library Association upholding the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which required filtering on certain government subsidized computers. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 2:13 pm by Adam Thierer
This changed with the rise of large daily newspapers in the mid-1800s and then broadcast radio and television in the early half of the 20th century.[5] Media providers were able to cross-subsidize news production independent of private or political patronage thanks to three things: (1) high-speed printing presses or broadcast facilities, (2) geographic-based market and pricing power, and (3) the widespread advertising base that was made possible by (1) and (2). [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 1:23 pm
” (AFTRA, for the non-laborites among my readers, is the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 6:58 am
(SiNApSE)   Israel English and Scottish football leagues sue Israel score draw competition (IP Factor)   Italy Made in Italy Act (IP Osgoode) Latest Italian GI’s protect potatoes and almond cakes (Class 46)   Kenya No fake smokescreen - US$1.5 million worth of fake cigarettes consumed in Kenyan market (Afro-IP)   New Zealand NZ ACTA meeting agenda leaks: Time for crime, not much for transparency (Michael Geist)   Norway Norway names the day for Hague Agreement… [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 9:46 am by Ben Sheffner
A group of entertainment industry unions and trade associations ranging from the American Federation of Musicians and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists to the MPAA and RIAA sent a letter Monday to President Obama, thanking him for his support of copyright enforcement and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 4:06 pm
——————— AFTRA National Board Approves Joint Bargaining with SAG on Primetime Television Ratifies New National Public Television Agreement LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK (Feb. 27, 2010) --- The National Board of Directors of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), a national union of more than more 70,000 performers, journalists, broadcasters, recording artists and… [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 11:25 am by Editor
" 17 - Hitchhiker's Guide was adapted, revised, sliced and diced, and rebooted several times to suit the needs of radio, novels, television, and film, as well as the author's own sensibilities. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 11:25 am by Editor
" 17 - Hitchhiker's Guide was adapted, revised, sliced and diced, and rebooted several times to suit the needs of radio, novels, television, and film, as well as the author's own sensibilities. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 7:11 am by Kenneth J. Vanko
It is for this reason that the broadcast employees' trade association, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, has been aggressive in pushing for legislative non-compete exemptions. [read post]