Atheist Spinster
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Can an actual #SAGAFTRA member explain why the strike means that #comicon is off-limits? Is it because performers' appearances have to be authorized by the studios whose properties that they're promoting?

Why couldn't they appear as independent contractors? If they want to be there during a strike?
06:47 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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L Geisenest
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In response to Atheist Spinster.
Their presence would be a form of promotion of a show/movie. They are not independent contractors in that way — they are members of a union.
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07:12 PM - Jul 13, 2023 (Edited)
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L Geisenest
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In response to L Geisenest.
Technically, members can still do autograph signings or events "not related to specific companies or projects" produced under the AMPTP Contracts. So can attend ComicCon as long as do so w/o publicity — no panels or interviews promoting films or TV shows. But leadership prefers they not. (2of 2)
07:17 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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Atheist Spinster
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In response to L Geisenest.
Understood. I hope that it won't affect actors' ridiculously-small cut of merchandising & other benefits of big fan conventions like this. Do #WGA members get any kind of a cut from aftermarket items like action figures & props?
07:23 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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L Geisenest
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In response to Atheist Spinster.
I seriously doubt it.
07:29 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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Atheist Spinster
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In response to L Geisenest.
That's obscene. Without writers, THERE ARE NO STORIES.

A.I. my ass.
07:51 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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L Geisenest
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In response to Atheist Spinster.
Writers are the mothers of the industry.

Not only do things begin with them, we collectively tend to overlook their work and their worth — with the irony being that the better the work, the more invisible the labor appears to be.

#WGAstrike
08:03 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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L Geisenest
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In response to L Geisenest.
Wait - should that be “paradox” instead of “irony?”

(If I was a writer, I’d know for sure — and I would’ve made it sound compelling or funny)
08:08 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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