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18 Jan 2008, 4:12 pm
Should the Writers Guild accept the same deal ... or try to negotiate better terms, and possibly continue the strike for months? [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 7:32 am
In a phone call with a client last night, I was asked what I thought about the strike started by the Writers Guild of America that is now affecting the television industry. [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 8:19 am
As I predicted 2-1/2 months ago, before the strike began, the WGA has dropped its demands for reality and animation jurisdiction. [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 5:18 am
None of the CAFA Law Blog case analysts are members of the Writers Guild of America (some of us are even true blue union-bustin’ management lawyers in our day jobs), and we are bringing you our own brand of Not Quite Ready for Prime Time entertainment with this sketch about a CAFA issue brewing in the Fourth Circuit: [Cue lights, music, spinning globe, and smart ass anchor:]Good evening. [read post]
20 Oct 2023, 6:18 am
The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) reached a deal to end the Writers Guild strike in late September. [read post]
5 Mar 2024, 9:27 pm
In a complaint filed on Sept. 19, 2023, in the Southern District of New York, the Author’s Guild, the nation’s oldest and largest organization of writers, is suing Open.AI, the maker of ChatGPT, in a class action lawsuit. [read post]
11 May 2007, 7:25 pm
Featuring Mark Cuban (HDNet), Blake Krikorian (CEO, Sling Media), Chad Hurley (YouTube), Gina Lombardi (President, MediaFLO; Qualcomm), Ben Pyne (Disney and ESPN networks), Tom Rogers (TiVo), and Phil Rosenthal (Writers Guild of America, West and Screen Actors Guild). [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 6:06 am
[…] These new ventures are incubating in the fiery glow of the 2-month-old strike by the Writers Guild of America. [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 12:14 am
Secondly, any waiver now, absent meaningful negotiations and in the face of mounting holiday debts for WGA members, may erode the widespread support of Guild members to the cause. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The LA Times ran a story that striking writers are in talks with venture capitalists to finance and launch Internet start-up companies. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 8:07 pm
, Style, and G4 writers seek immediate guild representation; Comcast refuses, and is forcing a government-supervised secret ballot election. [read post]
14 Nov 2007, 6:02 pm
When writers create content directly for new media (webisodes and mobisodes), the WGA wants the guild agreement to apply. [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 12:15 pm
The Authors Guild warned Thursday that Amazon's newest digital e-book reader's voice function is likely violating writers' copyrights â€â [read post]
10 May 2007, 9:50 am
Hearing features Mark Cuban (HDNet), Blake Krikorian (CEO, Sling Media), Chad Hurley (YouTube), Gina Lombardi (President, MediaFLO; Qualcomm), Ben Pyne (Disney and ESPN networks), Tom Rogers (TiVo), and Phil Rosenthal (Writers Guild of America, West and Screen Actors Guild). [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 1:23 pm
When is the writer’s strike going to end? [read post]
28 Nov 2023, 5:02 pm
Reuters “news service” reports that the Authors Guild and a number of American writers are suing Google Inc. in federal District Court in New York City, “alleging that the Web... [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 10:56 am
The Writers Guild strike has now cost its members over $151 million in salary and benefits, or the entire Los Angeles area economy more than $450 million. [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 2:31 pm
The Writers Guild of America is telling its members that the new show featuring the Osbourne family should be off limits since its producer Fremantle does not pay according to WGA scale. [read post]
8 May 2008, 5:26 pm
If so, come to Spinning the Web, a seminar on June 21 at the WGA, sponsored by the Writers Guild Foundation. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 10:34 am
That Writers' Guild case originally filed in federal court against various movie and television studios on grounds of age discrimination (greylisting) which was dismissed, then refiled in state court, which made its way through the courts, may finally be ready... [read post]
20 May 2009, 3:06 am
Jim Henshaw has a great post on the CRTC licence renewal hearings, the use of in camera hearings to keep much of the discussion out of the public domain, and the questionable claims about local broadcast viability with a new fee-for-carriage plan [hat tip: Writers Guild of Canada] . [read post]
