WGA
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Hey, Unpaid SAG Members: Your Case is Closed, Are You Watching?
No details on the SAG settlement of money it hasn’t paid actors, released late on a lazy August Friday? That’s just how Hollywood wants it
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FCC Gets Hit by a Split Hollywood on Net Neutrality
Filings bring out a major coalition of guilds on one side (against), the WGAW on the other (in favor)
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Strike 2? WGA’s Bowman Back as Negotiating Co-Chair
Producer who oversaw the guild’s last round of labor unrest is back for 2011 AMPTP talks; Billy Ray also named as co-chair
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Report: ABC Daytime Seeks WGA Approval to Trim Back Soaps
Soap site says network wants to cut 20 episodes each from “All My Children,” “One Life to Live” and “General Hospital”
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EXCLUSIVE: Battle Raging Over Age Listings on IMDb
Listing birth dates leads to age discrimination, industry workers say
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‘Laugh-In’ Head Writer Alan Manings Dies
Emmy-winning writer co-created “One Day at a Time” with his wife, wrote for numerous classic comedies
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WGAE to FCC: Reclassify the Internet
Fears trying to use legal authority over internet will kill net neutrality
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WGA Wants to Ease Up on Credit Restrictions
Guild seeks to loosen the rules that keep some of its powerful multi-hyphenates from getting screenplay recognition
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WGA East to Honor Edward Albee
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” author to receive Evelyn F. Burkey Award
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Oscars: 10 Lessons Learned from the Guilds’ Noms
They have delivered a message with their nominations: James Cameron will like it, but Clint Eastwood won’t
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Three Weinstein Films Ineligible for WGA Awards
Why isn’t Harvey Weinstein sending WGA screeners? Because it wouldn’t help
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Writers for iPhone App Company Join WGA
Joke-of-the-day scribes are the first from the phone platform to seek guild representation
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It’s Over: Judge Approves WGA Foreign Levy Prelim Settlement
Now it’s really over. A Superior Court judge has approved the Motion for Preliminary Approval of the settlement between the Writers Guild of America and class action plaintiffs led by William Richert. That $30 million settlement followed by a few days the publication by Waxword of the full deposition of whistleblower Terri Mial. From…
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Exclusive: Details of WGA’s Foreign Levies Agreement Revealed
Deal between the WGA and the class-action writers brings in accountants to review pact.
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Clickable TV Needs the WGA
The Guild should jump at the opportunity to make this new media technology a source of income for its members.
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Michael Kokernak