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DGA to Negotiate on SAG & AFTRA's Heels
The DGA contract (like those of SAG, AFTRA and the WGA) expires in mid-2011, but the DGA always negotiates early. If they don’t, the DGA will step in and do a deal first, setting a template that SAG and AFTRA may not like. Hopefully, SAG, AFTRA and the DGA will coordinate their proposals.
Digital Media Law - Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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Baby You Can Drive My Car: Hollywood Health Plans May Have to Pay “Cadillac Plan” Tax
Those health benefits, which are available to middle-class members as well as wealthy stars, would be the envy of most of the country if people elsewhere knew of them: the DGA’s top-tier plan reportedly features 10% in-network co-pays and a deductible of $325 per person in a world where 30% copays and $1,000 deductibles are more common.
Digital Media Law - Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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Hollywood Labor: SAG Source Says a Strike Unlikely, Joint SAG-AFTRA Bargaining Likely; and the Year Ahead
However, another factor is the DGA. At that point, the DGA may step in and do its deal – just as it did in January 2008, after the WGA failed to do a deal (and remained on strike) in fall 2007. The “front of the book” portions of the Net Code (i.e., Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. 2) Basic Cable.
Digital Media Law - Saturday, January 9, 2010
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  • DGA to Negotiate on SAG & AFTRA's Heels
    The DGA contract (like those of SAG, AFTRA and the WGA) expires in mid-2011, but the DGA always negotiates early. If they don’t, the DGA will step in and do a deal first, setting a template that SAG and AFTRA may not like. Hopefully, SAG, AFTRA and the DGA will coordinate their proposals.
    Digital Media Law - Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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  • Fixing the Residuals System
    For a proposal, see my piece in today’s Hollywood Reporter. ——————— Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about entertainment law and digital media law. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. If you work in tech, check out my new book How to Write LOIs and Term Sheets. The residuals system is broken.
    Digital Media Law - Friday, July 24, 2009
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  • SAG & Studios Agree to Tentative Deal
    The DGA has essentially never gone on strike, and AFTRA seldom does.) That offer, in turn, is essentially the same as the new media provisions that the DGA, WGA, and AFTRA (in two separate deals) agreed to. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. The gain—synchronicity—came at a price to SAG, however.
    Digital Media Law - Saturday, April 18, 2009
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  • Baby You Can Drive My Car: Hollywood Health Plans May Have to Pay “Cadillac Plan” Tax
    Those health benefits, which are available to middle-class members as well as wealthy stars, would be the envy of most of the country if people elsewhere knew of them: the DGA’s top-tier plan reportedly features 10% in-network co-pays and a deductible of $325 per person in a world where 30% copays and $1,000 deductibles are more common.
    Digital Media Law - Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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  • SAG Hardliners: The Trojan Horsemen of the Apocalypse
    Quite a platform for the upcoming SAG elections. ——————— Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about SAG, or digital media law generally. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. If you work in tech, check out my new book How to Write LOIs and Term Sheets. singers and others, but not actors.
    Digital Media Law - Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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  • Handel appointed Adjunct Professor at UCLA School of Law to teach entertainment unions & guilds course
    Below and attached is the press release from TroyGould. ——————— Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about entertainment law and digital media law. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. On a personal note, I've been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at UCLA School of Law. later this year.
    Digital Media Law - Friday, October 2, 2009
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  • WGA Awards Fete Slumdog, Milk, Mad Men, 30 Rock
    Slumdog has already won DGA, SAG, PGA and Golden Globe awards, and is a multi-award favorite for the Oscars. See below for a complete list of winners. ——————— Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about Hollywood Labor, or digital media law. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email.
    Digital Media Law - Saturday, February 7, 2009
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  • SAG-AFTRA Ratify Advertising Agreement; SAG Townhall Features Fireworks
    The key difference is the contract expiration date, which in the current deal is synchronized with the WGA, AFTRA and DGA (mid-2011). Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about SAG, or digital media law generally. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. About 28% returned their ballots, about typical.
    Digital Media Law - Friday, May 22, 2009
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  • SAG Executive Director: TV/Theatrical Deal Will Pass
    Another tough area for SAG is its relationship with talent agents: SAG’s been without a “franchise agreement” with the agents association since 2002, while AFTRA, DGA and WGA all have such agreements in place. We’ll know in a few weeks. ——————— Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about SAG, or digital media law generally.
    Digital Media Law - Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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  • SAG TV/Theatrical Ballots Later Than Expected; SAG Litigation Continues; and More
    SAG wants its contract to expire in mid-2011, to synch up with the WGA, AFTRA, and DGA. As in entertainment, so too in litigation: the show must go on. ——————— Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about SAG, or digital media law generally. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. Only a simple majority (i.e.,
    Digital Media Law - Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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