Amazon Settles With Writers Guild For $4M-Plus Over Unpaid Residuals

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Amazon Settles With Writers Guild For $4M-Plus Over Unpaid Residuals
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Just last month the writers' union secured $42 million for hundreds of writers in a similar arbitration with Netflix.

“Like Netflix, Amazon had been systematically undervaluing imputed license fees on theatrical films where it was both the producer and the distributor,” the WGA West message said to members.

“Amazon even underpaid residuals on films it acquired from independent producers, imputing a low license fee for these films rather than paying the writer a residual of 1.2% of the actual license fee paid to the producer, as required by the MBA .”

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