Hollywood is once again in the midst of a historic labor battle in which studios are facing a possible strike on two fronts in a protracted fight over new forms of distribution.
“There’s an advent of new technology that’s widely adopted and that’s where we’re at now with streaming,” Smith said. “And it only makes sense that the existing contracts aren’t able to encapsulate all of the considerations because we’re in a new market that wasn’t able to be visualized or understood three years ago or even six years ago.”
According to Edelstein, even if the SAG-AFTRA negotiators came back with a 20% increase in streaming residuals, the fees from that form of distribution would still be “so far away from how the old model used to pay.” It is already standard practice for actors to be asked to sign away the rights to their characters that they play, so that the studio can use them for other ancillary revenue streams such as at amusement parks and as action figures.
From the first days of the writers’ strike, actors, directors and others joined the picket lines. Most crew members also have refused to cross picket lines as theLast month, representatives from a kaleidoscope of labor organizations including the Directors Guild of America , SAG-AFTRA and the Teamsters, as well as nurses, teachers and others, joined forces with WGA members at a rally at Pan Pacific Park in Los Angeles.
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