It's a holiday miracle: Sides 'actually talk'

December 05, 2007 The WGA presented its much-anticipated proposal for streamed-content compensation to the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, and the parties batted the subject back and forth for a few hours. Asked to describe whether management received the WGA proposal warmly or derisively, a well-placed source would only observe, "Somewhere in between." CAA mediator Bryan Lourd continued to serve as a mediator for the contract talks, but the official federal mediator remained absent.

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