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AFTRA, AMPTP close to a deal? American Dad Login to vote
With SAG waiting in the wings, AFTRA and the majors are believed to be near a tentative deal on the union's primetime contract.

Amid a news blackout, neither side issued an official announcement Monday during the 16th day of negotiations at the headquarters of the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers in Encino.

Monday's session marked the eighth consecutive day of bargaining over the contract, which covers a handful of primetime shows including "Cashmere Mafia," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Reaper," "Rules of Engagement" and "'Til Death."

AFTRA president Robert Reardon had indicated Sunday the two sides were making progress toward an agreement while singling out the issue of the AMPTP seeking consent over clip use as the toughest hurdle. She noted that talks had been productive enough for AFTRA to pledge that it would continue to negotiate throughout the holiday weekend.

The Screen Actors Guild is set to resume its feature-primetime negotiations on Wednesday. The SAG and AFTRA deals expires June 30 -- and the lack of resolution has unnerved Hollywood in the wake of the 100-day writers strike.

Major studios have refused to greenlight features until the SAG deal's done.

SAG negotiated for 18 days before talks recessed on May 6 over SAG's objections that it was near a deal. The AMPTP insisted that it was obliged to launch the twice-delayed talks with AFTRA the next day.

SAG leaders have said since that major gaps remain on clip consent, DVD, force majeure and product integration. And both performers unions have pointed to the companies' clips proposal -- which calls for allowing companies to license clips without performers' consent -- as being particularly problematic.

"As I've mentioned in previous updates, in addition to seeking improvements in compensation, coverage, and health and retirement benefits, we are also confronting a number of tough challenges involving new media," Reardon said in the Sunday message to memebers. "Because many of the issues we face in this area are completely unprecedented -- most notably, the knotty problem of clip consent -- we are trying to think out of the box in order to reach pragmatic resolutions."

The majors have asserted that they may be able to start a viable business in clips if the unions will relent on the consent issue. Reardon said, "AFTRA is focused on working with employers to find a creative solution that will protect our members' images while at the same time encouraging the growth of the new market."

AFTRA split from joint negotiations with SAG in late March following a bitter jurisdictional dispute, then spurned SAG's two-pronged request on May 6 to either step aside for a third time or go back to joint bargaining. It's the first time in three decades that the two sides have negotiated separately on the primetime contract.

Source: Variety.com
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