SAG-AFTRA Executive Committee Approves TV Animation Agreement, Sends To Members For Ratification Vote
deadline.comSAG-AFTRA is sending its latest TV animation agreement to its members for a vote. The guild announced Friday that the executive committee had approved the 2023 contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, so it will now be sent to all members for ratification.
According to SAG, the new three-year contract also benefitted from some of the gains made in the TV/Theatrical Contract, which the union went on strike for 118 days to achieve.
Particularly, the guild highlighted the artificial intelligence protections in the animation agreement. The new contract includes language denoting voice actors as “only humans” and also established regular, mandatory artificial intelligence meetings with producers, which will include discussion of methods and systems to track the use of digital replicas.
Here are more of the key points of the deal related to AI: Read more about the deal here. “We were able to ride the wave of our strike victory to secure a better deal for members.
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