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AMPTP splashes cold water on SAG


April 30, 2008 Any chance that SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers will ink a new contract by Friday is all but gone. On Wednesday, the AMPTP sent out a six-page missive to its member companies "setting the record straight" on the state of the negotiations and indicating little progress has been made since negotiations started April 15. The studio group outlined what it views as the chief reasons for the apparent breakdown, claiming that SAG suggested 70 changes to new-media terms accepted by the DGA, the WGA and AFTRA for its network code.

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