Focus (Forum & Focus)
Mar. 10, 2008
Write On
Focus Column - By Jonathan Handel - The new Writers Guild contract shows that the writers faced down six multinational media conglomerates and eventually achieved a foothold in new media.
By Jonathan Handel
This article appears on Page 7.
As everyone knows, the Writers Guild of America has negotiated and ratified a new deal with the studios. Was it a good deal, and what are the terms? It's a complex deal: 50 pages of contract language, amending a 650-page collective bargaining agreement. The most notable terms relate to new media - specifically, the Internet and cell phones.
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