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FROM VARIETY: Guild no longer keeping DVD residuals off table
By Dave McNary of Variety -- Video Business, 11/7/2007
NOV. 7 | FROM VARIETY: Hopes for a quick resolution of the writers strike are fading fast.Back-channel efforts have resumed to avert what's now looking like a long and painful work stoppage. But those moves aren't gaining much traction amid continued hardline public stances by both the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers.
Worries have risen that without reviving the WGA talks, the scribes' work stoppage could easily bleed into the middle of next year.
AMPTP topper Nick Counter has insisted that the companies aren't interested in new talks as long as the WGA's on strike. And WGA West president Patric Verrone has declared in an email to members that the guild is no longer committed to taking its DVD residuals proposal off the table -- even though it did so Sunday to address the AMPTP's assertion that the DVD proposal was a roadblock to a deal.
Read the full story on Variety.com.