It’s deja vu all over again for Patric Verrone, the former WGA West president who led the guild during the 2007-08 writers strike. Verrone, who spoke to Variety while picketing outside Fox St…
while picketing outside Fox Studios in West Los Angeles, sees a number of parallels to the dynamic that led to the work stoppage in November 2007 but also a number of important differences. He is a member of the negotiating committee that has been wrangling this latest three-year contract with executives at the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
“The amount of support from the rest of the labor movement in Hollywood and internationally has been astonishing,” he said. “Part of that is attributable to the fact that the companies have been doing this to everybody.” Marjorie David, another veteran of the 2007 strike, is among the many guild members disturbed by the spread of AI and the threat it poses to writers and copyrighted works. David was dismayed to learn, after the WGA disclosed details about its proposals after calling the strike late on May 1, thatnegotiators did not engage with the guild on its proposal to regulate the use of AI in the creative process.
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