The Screen Actors Guild is urging its 120,000 members to authorize a strike to obtain a better contract for shows streamed onto the Internet and royalty payments on DVDs. If 75% approve, it would disrupt the awards shows, such as the Oscars on February 22, 2009 and will also effect on line produced entertainment. However, 130 of Hollywood's prominent stars have joined together to oppose the strike vote authorization.
Strike Demands Based on Previous Contracts
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and members failed to anticipate the huge surge in the growth of cable TV and home video with the results that early contracts did not compensate them adequately. Although the Internet is yet to produce on line equivalents of leading TV shows, SAG does not want to make the same mistake if TV shows become an on line equivalent on the Internet. (Los Angeles Times, 12/3/08)
Demands in a New Contract
One of the issues dividing producers and actors is the future of digital entertainment. The question is how actors should be paid in the the digital era, especially their appearances on programs created for the Internet. SAG wants actors working on on line shows do so under a union contract, the same as when they appear on sitcoms or dramas. It feels that the internet represents the future and it wants actors to share in it.
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