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30 Dec 2014, 10:02 am
This is the latest of many rulings against SLMI, none of which have deterred the company from continuing to file lawsuits. 2: DGA, WGA Extend Foreign Levies Agreements with MPAA Next up today, Dave McNary at Variety reports that the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) have both extended their agreement with the MPAA that has them handle disbursement of funds collected from foreign levies. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 8:50 am
(Jay Leno who says "no writers, no show" -- photo from Yahoo Entertainment)This very local news on the Writers' Guild strike is just in from the U.K. -- Writers Block Hollywood as Strike Takes TV Shows Off the Air (excerpt below, and kudos for yet another unknown artist of the terse and witty headline). [read post]
7 Feb 2009, 10:21 pm
Slumdog Millionaire continued its winning streak this awards season, with Simon Beaufoy winning the 2009 Writers Guild of America award this evening for adapted screenplay. [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 7:02 pm
For the Columbia Journalism Review, Chris Mooney considers the idea of the Bloggers Guild of America:Yes, dear reader: the Bloggers Guild of America may be on its way. [read post]
17 Sep 2011, 4:23 pm
Earlier this week, the Australian Society of Authors, the Quebec writers' union UNEQ and the Authors Guild (USA) launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against the HathiTrust digital repository and five major US universities involved in a project to digitize millions of books. [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 8:46 am
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)A dozen Guild members of the Providence Journal are taking the money and running, but the voluntary buyouts by four newsroom staffers and eight advertising dept. employees are not expected to spare the daily further layoffs, WPRI-TV's blog (www.wpri.com) reported.Among editorial staffers who took the buyout are a religion writer, an investigative/legal reporter and syndicated columnist Froma Harrop, according to WPRI-TV. [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 10:52 am
[video]Thanks, I mean blame, Eric Galton[click on the title of this post to read more...] [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 8:33 am
Republished by Blog Post PromoterReuters “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 search leader’s bid to digitize the book collections of major libraries infringes individual author’s copyrights. [read post]
27 Sep 2021, 5:35 am
Just as Hollywood was coping with the early effects of the pandemic, it barely avoided a Writers Guild strike. [read post]
14 May 2023, 6:05 am
AI is being used to replace human expression for the sake of greed. [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 3:02 pm
As Barry writes, the principal issue preventing a deal with the writers seems to be how to handle, and divide revenues from, new media such as cell phones and the internet. [read post]
2 Oct 2007, 2:59 am
Writers want such payments increased, and have proposed a structure for compensation when movies and shows are distributed on the Internet or through other forms of new media. [read post]
18 Nov 2007, 8:25 pm
The Writers Guild of Canada made it clear it would turn in any Canadian writers caught working for struck companies during the strike. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 2:28 am
Resume Pro Writers Guild c/o Michael Hunt and Mercado, FA0912001296574 (Nat. [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 10:56 am
NY. 1:2011cv06351) has been filed by the Authors Guild (whose President is Scott Turow), the Australian Society of Authors, the Québec Union of Writers, and various individual authors who allege that HathiTrust, a partnership of research and university libraries, has engaged in large-scale copyright infringement “by digitizing, archiving, copying and now publishing ... copyrighted works without the authorization of those works’ rights holders. [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 6:06 pm
When parties are white-anting each other outside the mediation room, things are in a downward, and probably for the moment fatal, spiral.Confidentiality went long ago, now it's who can win the public relations contest.Here the Writers Guild of America tells us how talks broke down in the writers strike mediation last Friday night in LA and here The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers gives their version.On the one hand Young for WGA says;… [read post]
10 Aug 2022, 4:33 pm
Netflix may be on the outs with the Writers Guild, but has had better luck in its negotiations with SAG-AFTRA. [read post]
7 May 2020, 8:57 pm
Writers Guild of America, West, Inc. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 11:36 am
Writer's Guild Rules prohibit non-franchised agents from representing their members. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 11:10 am
As I suggested might happen, The Weinstein Company has reached an interim deal with the WGA, reports the New York Times.The deal is similar to the one signed by the Guild and United Artists last week, and would be superseded by the agreement ultimately reached with the major studios - whenever that happens. [read post]
