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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., If you work in tech, check out my book How to Write LOIs and Term Sheets
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
    If you work in tech, check out my new book How to Write LOIs and Term Sheets. Tags: WGA Labor Unions IATSE residuals DGA SAG The residuals system is broken. It’s expensive to administer and is an invitation to conflict as platforms such as new media evolve. Yet we need residuals, because talent survives on these payments between gigs.
    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. If you work in tech, check out my new book How to Write LOIs and Term Sheets. increase in minimum pay rates plus a 0.5%
    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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  • The Importance of an Assignment Clause
    This case illustrates how important it is for production companies to obtain written consent to assign their rights when they license underlying works, such as books, scripts and music. Craig’s The Poor & Hungry will be playing at the DGA theater on Thursday, May 9, 2002 at 7pm. Nike objected. Gardner v. Nike, Inc.,
    Entertainment Law Resources Blog - Monday, April 8, 2002
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  • SAG Hardliners: The Trojan Horsemen of the Apocalypse
    If you work in tech, check out my new book How to Write LOIs and Term Sheets. SAG’s Hollywood branch, dominated by the hardline Membership First faction, has passed a motion forming a task force to explore “acquisition of actors of AFTRA,” reports SAGWatch. 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
    Handel will specifically spotlight the 2007-2009 Hollywood labor turmoil that consumed the Writers Guild of America (WGA), Directors Guild of America (DGA), Screen Actors Guild (SAG), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), and IATSE and the Teamsters, the unions that represents most ”below-the-line” workers.
    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. 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. It’s a tough town for writers.)
    Digital Media Law - Saturday, February 7, 2009
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  • Oscar Rule Change: Ten Best Lists
    Yes, I know that both Peckinpah and Hopper were DGA nominees, but that's not the same kind of competition.] A film historian of the 60s and 70s sent me his best guesses at what ten best Oscar lists would have been between 1967 and 1979. Bottom line though, the Academy had more quality films to choose from then than they do now. Darn it.
    Thompson On Hollywood - Wednesday, July 1, 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). If you work in tech, check out my new book How to Write LOIs and Term Sheets. The result was expected, as there was no organized opposition. About 28% returned their ballots, about typical.
    Digital Media Law - Friday, May 22, 2009
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