DealFatigue

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Effective negotiation and deal making often require more than selling to the highest bidder. You’re not looking for a love fest here; merely a path towards building trust over subsequent negotiations. SAG and the studios might have been able to change the discordant tone of their negotiations by simply finding more common ground through the exchange of ego nickels. Does aggressive negotiation help, hinder or have no effect on the next deal?

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Effective negotiation and deal making often require more than selling to the highest bidder. You’re not looking for a love fest here; merely a path towards building trust over subsequent negotiations. SAG and the studios might have been able to change the discordant tone of their negotiations by simply finding more common ground through the exchange of ego nickels. Does aggressive negotiation help, hinder or have no effect on the next deal?

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Effective negotiation and deal making often require more than selling to the highest bidder. You’re not looking for a love fest here; merely a path towards building trust over subsequent negotiations. SAG and the studios might have been able to change the discordant tone of their negotiations by simply finding more common ground through the exchange of ego nickels. Does aggressive negotiation help, hinder or have no effect on the next deal?

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Effective negotiation and deal making often require more than selling to the highest bidder. You’re not looking for a love fest here; merely a path towards building trust over subsequent negotiations. SAG and the studios might have been able to change the discordant tone of their negotiations by simply finding more common ground through the exchange of ego nickels. Does aggressive negotiation help, hinder or have no effect on the next deal?

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Effective negotiation and deal making often require more than selling to the highest bidder. You’re not looking for a love fest here; merely a path towards building trust over subsequent negotiations. SAG and the studios might have been able to change the discordant tone of their negotiations by simply finding more common ground through the exchange of ego nickels. Does aggressive negotiation help, hinder or have no effect on the next deal?

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Effective negotiation and deal making often require more than selling to the highest bidder. You’re not looking for a love fest here; merely a path towards building trust over subsequent negotiations. SAG and the studios might have been able to change the discordant tone of their negotiations by simply finding more common ground through the exchange of ego nickels. Does aggressive negotiation help, hinder or have no effect on the next deal?

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Gordon P. Firemark

JANUARY 28, 2013

Why you need an entertainment attorney to help negotiate your television acting deals. By negotiating the actors' fees before the show is actor even auditions (“tests”) for the role, the Producer avoids being “held up” for greater compensation once it's clear the actor is wanted for the show. Typical Points of negotiation in a Test Option. Credit negotiations can often occupy the bulk of the negotiating time.

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Gordon P. Firemark

JANUARY 22, 2014

It seems they're teaching negotiating skills. I think they apply equally well to the art of negotiating deals in show business. ” Negotiations always start with an ask. Their wants and needs are the other moving parts in the negotiation. Digging in on a point of contention isn't good for the overall outcome of a negotiation. ” Sometimes, if the negotiation isn't going as well as you'd hope, it's necessary to offer something more.

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Digital Media Law

MARCH 17, 2009

Though it gets less play than the stalled SAG TV/theatrical talks , SAG and AFTRA have been jointly negotiating for several weeks with the advertising industry over the commercials contract. Now, after industry statements that the negotiations had been going reasonably well, the talks seem to have hit a snag, and the unions may seek a strike authorization vote from their members, reports The Wrap. That report cautions that the leaks may be just a negotiating ploy.

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The Legal Satyricon

MAY 30, 2015

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DealFatigue

JULY 31, 2008

There’s nothing new about lying during negotiations. Then as now, negotiating is nothing less than a confrontational (and largely, animal instinct-driven) struggle for limited resources. These precedents greatly influence, if not become the floor to subsequent negotiations, taking into account the project’s budget and vintage of the quote. When I insisted on seeing the prior deal, the rep had the gall to blame me for drawing negotiations out.

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Digital Media Law

JULY 21, 2012

SAG-AFTRA and the advertising industry have agreed to postpone their previously-scheduled early negotiations of the union’s commercials agreement, the union announced Saturday. No date has been set for commercials negotiations, but the calendar makes it unlikely these will occur before mid-January, raising the possibility of a nail-biter.

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New Media and Technology Law

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Negotiations between television channels/networks and pay TV operators are a breed apart. But the critical factor that sets these negotiations apart is the actual regulation of the negotiations under three main categories of rules. Broadcasters may invoke “Must Carry” status or seek to negotiate terms for “retransmission” under FCC rules requiring “good faith” negotiations. The stakes are high and the consequence of failure – a “dark” screen – is all too public.

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 28, 2007

On Friday night, Dave McNary reported in Variety that after three months of unproductive negotiations and just days before the current contract expires, the US government is set to mediate negotiations between the WGA, the networks and the studios. However, if negotiations are going well, Guild members could continue to write under the expired contact. Guilds Negotiations Writers daily variety entertainment law strike wga wga strike writers guild

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 28, 2007

On Friday night, Dave McNary reported in Variety that after three months of unproductive negotiations and just days before the current contract expires, the US government is set to mediate negotiations between the WGA, the networks and the studios. However, if negotiations are going well, Guild members could continue to write under the expired contact. Guilds Negotiations Writers daily variety entertainment law strike wga wga strike writers guild

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 28, 2007

On Friday night, Dave McNary reported in Variety that after three months of unproductive negotiations and just days before the current contract expires, the US government is set to mediate negotiations between the WGA, the networks and the studios. However, if negotiations are going well, Guild members could continue to write under the expired contact. Tags: Writers Negotiations Guilds WGA Strike entertainment law writers guild wga strike daily variety

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Digital Media Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The SAG and AFTRA Commercials Contracts will be bargained under the terms of the Phase One Agreement that applies to the Commercials Contracts negotiations only. Negotiations are scheduled to commence on February 23 in New York. ——————— Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about Hollywood Labor, or digital media law. The SAG-AFTRA commercials contract seems to be suffering little of the turbulence afflicting the long-expired SAG TV/theatrical contract. So far anyway.

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DealFatigue

JULY 31, 2008

There’s nothing new about lying during negotiations. Then as now, negotiating is nothing less than a confrontational (and largely, animal instinct-driven) struggle for limited resources. These precedents greatly influence, if not become the floor to subsequent negotiations, taking into account the project’s budget and vintage of the quote. When I insisted on seeing the prior deal, the rep had the gall to blame me for drawing negotiations out.

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Run Negotiations Floors Animation 100

DealFatigue

JULY 31, 2008

There’s nothing new about lying during negotiations. Then as now, negotiating is nothing less than a confrontational (and largely, animal instinct-driven) struggle for limited resources. These precedents greatly influence, if not become the floor to subsequent negotiations, taking into account the project’s budget and vintage of the quote. When I insisted on seeing the prior deal, the rep had the gall to blame me for drawing negotiations out.

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Gordon P. Firemark

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

One of the issues in the impasse between the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is the Force Majeure Clause. Backstage magazine has A good piece by Armin Shimerman on Force Majeure. The article explains the current Force majeure clause, the issue between the parties and the consquences of its application and enforcement.

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Digital Media Law

APRIL 28, 2010

The Directors Guild announced on its website today that it will begin negotiations with the AMPTP (studio alliance) in mid-November, which is immediately after the scheduled end of 45 days of negotiation between the AMPTP and SAG (Screen Actors Guild) & AFTRA (a smaller performers union). The DGA contract (like those of SAG, AFTRA and the WGA) expires in mid-2011, but the DGA always negotiates early.

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Media Law Prof Blog

AUGUST 17, 2017

Carol Pauli, Texas A&M University School of Law, is publishing Enemy of the People: Negotiating News at the White House in the Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution. Here is the abstract. How can the press serve as a check

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Talks on the agreement, which covers daytime and syndicated programs, are likely to be smooth read more. The Business AMPTP THR Online THR, Esq. Television SAG-AFTRA Labor Business

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Digital Media Law

JANUARY 19, 2011

Lowell Peterson also confirms that there is no date set for negotiations. See The Hollywood Reporter exclusive. _. Watch for my new book “Hollywood on Strike!,” due out next month. Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about entertainment law and digital media law. Check out my residuals chart there too. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. Or, follow me on Twitter , friend me on Facebook , or subscribe to my Forbes.com or Huffington Post articles.

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Media Law Prof Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Teresa Scassa, University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, is publishing Navigating Legal Rights in Spatial Media in Understanding Spatial Media (Kitchin, Lauriault, & Wilson, eds., Sage Publishing, 2016). Here is the abstract. The collection or generation of spatial data is

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2016

The injunction is not intended to kill the documentary, but to save time, money and court resources while Franklin and 'Amazing Grace' producer Alan Elliot come to terms on a deal. read more. THR, Esq. Movies Movies THR Online

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

APRIL 29, 2010

By Matthew Belloni EXCLUSIVE: As the Walt Disney Co.'s s dumping sale of its Miramax specialty division slogs along as slowly as.well, as slowly as the average Miramax movie, we've been asked repeatedly which lawyers are repping the deal. Nobody's commenting, Tags: Corporate

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2010

By Eriq Gardner If and when it ever gets officially announced, NBC's settlement with Conan O'Brien will go down as one of the strangest in Hollywood dealmaking history. Forget the size of the reported $40 million-or-so payment, which could approach.

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Digital Media Law

DECEMBER 6, 2011

AFTRA’s negotiations with the networks and television producers resume this week and the big issue, according to a source close to the process, is the same one that’s bedeviled Hollywood labor for the past several years: health and retirement. Negotiations began November 7 under a press blackout, but haven’t produced a deal yet.

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The Legal Satyricon

MAY 7, 2009

In any negotiation, it is important to understand what your counterpart really wants. Tags: negotiation Take this scene from HBO’s Rome, Season II, Episode 3. Cassius: Ha ha ha. that’s very good. So, if we could return to the subject of money. Please bear in mind, your excellency, that those who help us now will [.].

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DealFatigue

MAY 30, 2007

A literary agent recently lied to me during a negotiation. Anyone who negotiates for a living; indeed, anyone with any meaningful time in the business might find that unremarkable. So in every negotiation between reps in the business or kids on the playground, there is an implied agreement to negotiate in good faith regardless of the leverage you have in the deal. Negotiations continued over several days and Agent agreed to the new terms subject to Writer’s approval.

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Digital Media Law

OCTOBER 25, 2010

For the latest on the Hobbit controversy, see [link] and [link]. For details of the WGA's priorities in its upcoming (though as yet unscheduled) contract talks, see [link]. -. Watch for my new book “Hollywood on Strike!,” due out next month. Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about entertainment law and digital media law. Check out my residuals chart there too. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email.

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Digital Media Law

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The guild’s role in New Zealand dispute had been previously unknown. For details, see my THR piece. -. Watch for my new book “Hollywood on Strike!,” due out next month. Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about entertainment law and digital media law. Check out my residuals chart there too. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. Or, follow me on Twitter , friend me on Facebook , or subscribe to my Forbes.com or Huffington Post articles.

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

JULY 12, 2013

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy All In : Negotiating Ramadan in Guantanamo Feedings

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Digital Media Law

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

An exclusive look inside the bargaining room of last Sunday's deal that insiders say went right down to the wire. Details in my Hollywood Reporter piece. -. Watch for my new book “Hollywood on Strike!,” due out next month. Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about entertainment law and digital media law. Check out my residuals chart there too. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email.

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Music Technology Policy

AUGUST 27, 2015

Although this interview is from 2009, it gives you some insight into Google’s over the top negotiation tactics and how they use the withholding of content as a negotiation tactic in the press–enforcing your property rights is “censorship” don’t you know. That contract ended at the end of December 2008, at which time Google and PRS entered negotiations to renew the contract.

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Digital Media Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

for a third, previously unannounced day of talks, said a source close to the negotiations. No other info was available on the progress of negotiations, but this is obviously a hopeful sign in a situation that's been largely devoid of them until the last 30 days. SAG and the AMPTP ended their second day of talks at about 10:00 p.m. this evening (Weds.), but will resume tomorrow at 1:00 p.m.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

JULY 19, 2016

So there’s a lot of negotiations going on." Susan Estrich reveals talks are ongoing for the mogul's role at the network he founded and that "exit agreements can take all kinds of different forms, including agreements that provide for continuing roles. read more. THR, Esq. THR, Esq. Television Television THR Online Roger Ailes

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Digital Media Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

An AMPTP (studio alliance) spokesman confirmed to me today that negotiations between the studios and SAG are still on for next Tuesday and Wednesday, as previously announced , despite a threat from SAG President Alan Rosenberg’s lawyers that any deal reached would be null, void and not binding on SAG members. To date, the suit has gotten no traction, with a judge denying the plaintiffs’ request for an injunction that would have prevented the negotiations.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The action comes just as AT&T is to submit its $85 billion proposed acquisition of Time Warner to regulators. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Television Business THR Online

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

MAY 13, 2010

By Matthew Belloni We've got new details in that "Twilight" salary standoff. As we first reported Monday, the actors who play the vampire Cullen kids (Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene) have rejected Summit Entertainment's offer to return for a fourth.

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DealFatigue

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

While all of these elements were contributing factors, there’s no doubt that the addition of studio principals to the negotiations made all the difference. Several weeks ago, Alfredo Barrios, a former corporate lawyer turned writer and WGA strike captain, posted a missive on a pro-WGA blog, unitedhollywood.com urging that studio principals become directly involved in talks in order to restart negotiations.

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Media Law

MAY 10, 2019

I have only read the press release, not seen it in action, but this sounds interesting: Neota Logic , developer of an AI automation platform, and LawGeex , an AI contract review platform, have partnered to automate a step in contract negotiations. For anything more substantive, this would be only a step in the continuing negotiation process.

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