As SAG-AFTRA Responds to Studio Offer, AI Protections Remain Sticking Point
The studios’ latest offer would reportedly allow them to secure rights to use digital scans of deceased actors without consent of their estate or SAG-AFTRA
SAG has countered that there must be compensation & consent for re-use of actors’ scans.
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SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP are still going back and forth on the "best and final offer"
the one big hurdle is AI
the studios are refusing to budge on that one and still want to use digital scans of deceased actors without consent of their estates and that a scanned actor only gets paid once no matter how often the scan is used
an union source:
“This is one of the biggest reasons SAG did not accept the ‘last, best and final’ offer from the AMPTP. We could not allow that language to stand. This is massive. Every A-, B-, C-, D- and E-lister - all the higher-paid performers - who think this is a minimum wage strike, they must know they are in this fight. They have to realize that this is about protecting them. This is their strike now when they realize what’s on the line. The people who launched the campaign to take a deal - they’d be f-ked if we took this deal with that in there.”