Digital biz is WGA sticking point

November 01, 2007 There's an elephant in the overheated room where producers and writers are haggling over a new labor contract. The animal in question is the digital download business, and determining a fair cut of that digital revenue for talent is at the heart of the contentious talks between the WGA and Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. Every Hollywood studio has a different way of measuring what its digital business is, with Disney right now touting fairly loudly its successes in this area and NBC among those suggesting that the coin is fairly negligible.

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