InternetScreen Actors board backs negotiators on new media (Reuters)

Reuters - The board of the major union for U.S. film and television actors has backed its negotiators' demands to cover Internet-related work, signaling that contract talks with Hollywood's studios may remain stalled for weeks.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The board of the major union for U.S. film and television actors has backed its negotiators' demands to cover Internet-related work, signaling that contract talks with Hollywood's studios may remain stalled for weeks. In talks that reached a stalemate this month, negotiators for the Screen Actors Guild, representing 120,000 performers, have demanded that work distributed on the Internet be covered by a SAG contract, and late on Saturday SAG's national board voted 68-0 in favor of a resolution reaffirming that idea. "We have been telling the industry how important it is for all new media productions under our contract to be done union, and how important residuals (fees) for made-for new media programming are when programs are re-run on new media," SAG National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Doug Allen, said in a statement. "I am very pleased that our National Board today unanimously confirmed these essential principles in support of our National Negotiating Committee," Allen said. SAG's National Board of Directors adopted the resolution stating a "core principle" of the guild is that "no non-union work shall be authorized to be done under any (SAG) agreement and that all work under a (SAG) contract, regardless of budget level, shall receive fair compensation when reused... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

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