Writers Guild of America: "We Have A Tentative Deal"

[Edgewater_Joe]

This was sent early this morning to membership. The delay in publishing the deal points, we've learned, was because the companies dragged their feet enshrining some of the final details in an attempt to renege on some of what they had promised. The last-minute fight to keep that from happening took until late last night.

"To Our Fellow Members,

"We have a tentative deal.

"It is an agreement that protects a future in which the Internet becomes the primary means of both content creation and delivery. It creates formulas for revenue-based residuals in new media, provides access to deals and financial data to help us evaluate and enforce those formulas, and establishes the principle that, "When they get paid, we get paid."

Link to site, including a summary page of the agreement, can be found at
http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2008/02/letter-from-presidents-with-deal.html

[angrycarpenter]

1. I quit watching tv in support of the strike

God how I miss THE daily show.

[hootinholler]

2. Good news. n/t

[Nailzberg]

3. Good. Now ratify it and get back to work so cameramen don't lose their homes.

[kestrel91316]

4. Can't happen fast enough for me.......

[Orsino]

5. Just two weeks after Andrew Young asked Colbert to get on the phone...

...discreetly: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=303&topic_id=366&mesg_id=366

I imagine that Colbert was already doing just that, but if he did have any great leverage, we'd never hear him crow "I did it!" in character.

[flyarm]

6. oh good for the writers!! I am happy for them,..i hope they can get back to what they do best!

Congradualtions writers..i hope you got very close to what you were asking for!!

Union all the way!!

woo hoo!!

( and i hope you kept lists of those who crossed your lines!!)

fly

[1776Forever]

7. Great News! Hope you got a good deal! Blessings to you all for standing tall!

:pals:

[Blue State Blues]

8. Whoohoo! N/T