Kristen, UH posted the DGA release.
it seems that they got jurisdiction (big) and residuals based on the distributor's gross (also big).
Yeah, I noticed. Nice.
Ad-Supported Streaming: After an initial 17-day window for free promotional streaming of Internet programs, companies must pay 3% of the residual base (approximately $600 for network prime time 1-hour drama) for 26 weeks of streaming. They can continue to stream for an additional 26-week period by paying an additional 3% -- or a total of $1,200 for one year's worth of streaming. (During a program's first season, the 17-day window is expanded to 24 days to help build audience.)
This window is lame, but at least it's better than the three months or whatever they proposed before?
T, I didn't mean so much pissed off now - I mean longer term.
There is still plenty of healthy denial that all will be fixed soon enough to avert any big disaster long term.
I realize the above sentence makes no sense, but I'm not a writer and I hope people can figure out what I mean.
More than doubles the rate currently paid by the employers on television programming to .70% above 100,000 units downloaded.
Below 100,000 breakpoint: rate will be paid at the current rates of .30% until worldwide gross receipts reach $1 million and .36% thereafter.
Isn't the WGA asking for 2.5% here? 0.3% is the DVD rate, right?
I don't understand how the two paragraphs in that NYT piece go together. Doubling the compensation isn't quadrupling it, I guess. But they are getting money for streaming & downloaded content, and... first it's a breakthrough but it's also not important? So confused.
...Aha. The first paragraph is pretty much paraphrasing the DGA press release. So I'm guessing the second paragraph is from an AMPTP source, thus the disconnect.
Here's the AMPTP version:
The agreement between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the Directors Guild of America establishes an important precedent: Our industry’s creative talent will now participate financially in every emerging area of new media. The agreement demonstrates beyond any doubt that our industry’s producers are willing and able to work with the creators of entertainment content to establish fair and flexible rules for this fast-changing marketplace.
So... it was all a wacky misunderstanding?
[Ooh, I'm all X-posty]
First thing that jumps out at me is the "17-day window (24-day window for series in their first season)." Does this apply to original internet shows? A show like Quarterlife that airs multiple episodes per week would be completely stale after 17 days. Or any even network shows that they can easily air first on the web before broadcast TV. I mean broadcast and online are merging so who is to say how that will work? Seems to me that would be the loophole. Since there are no reruns on the web the promotional period should be applied to the length of the first run. The first run should be defined as until the next episode airs.
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