Letter from SAG
Digital Media Law: SAG and the AMPTP seem to be holding firm to their positions. Here’s an email SAG sent to their members today, and the AMPTP response:
July 17, 2008
It’s Not New Media – It’s NOW Media
Dear Screen Actors Guild Member,
I want to tell you why your national negotiating committee has not accepted the June 30 offer put across the table by the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers (AMPTP.) For one reason and one reason only: It’s not a good offer. It doesn’t address enough of your priorities (as outlined in past SAG Contract 2008 Reports), particularly in new media.
The AMPTP ‘s current offer to SAG, which is nearly the same for new media as the deals that the DGA, WGA and AFTRA accepted, has come to be called “the template.” Some of you may be wondering why we don’t just agree to the template established by…