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After 146 Days on Strike, Hollywood Writers Have Reached a Tentative Agreement (jacobin.com)
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[–] gsf@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any news on whether streaming services will have to release view numbers? Still seems like that would be a must for calculating residuals.

[–] gsf@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This from https://deadline.com/2023/09/wga-strike-officially-end-leaders-approve-tentative-deal-1235556919/ looks promising:

“The Companies agree to provide the Guild, subject to a confidentiality agreement, the total number of hours streamed, both domestically and internationally, of self-produced high budget streaming programs (e.g., a Netflix original series),” the WGA added.

[–] gsf@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

And confirmed! https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23891835/wga-contract-summary-ai-streaming-data

Now, studios will have to provide the WGA with actual data. Specifically "the total number of hours streamed, both domestically and internationally, of self-produced high-budget streaming programs." That means Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon, and the other streamers won't be able to invent weird metrics or meaningless self-referential rankings to give to the WGA.