Equity negotiates the first ever Mobisode agreement
Posted on October 22, 2007
Mobile phone drama covered by Equity deal
Equity has put in place the first ever agreement to cover “mobisodes” – programmes produced specifically to be delivered over mobile phone platforms. Read more
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Membership supports single agreement
Posted on October 16, 2007
Survey findings show backing for union approach
Equity Council at its meeting September 4, 2007 endorsed a limited, but significant, number of changes to the existing Equity/PACT Television Production Agreement.A survey of Equity members has found significant support for a single television agreement and backs the union’s approach to future payments for the use of television work.
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Equity and PACT reach agreement
Posted on October 16, 2007
New settlement for 2008
Equity Council at its meeting September 4, 2007 endorsed a limited, but significant, number of changes to the existing Equity/PACT Television Production Agreement.
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Dealing with unauthorised usage on YouTube
Posted on October 16, 2007
How you can stop your work being stolen
Members who feel that Internet video-sharing site YouTube contains material featuring their work that is being distributed without proper authorisation should know that there is a straightforward way in which they can have the worked removed.
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Union and employers to discuss pan-industry deal
Posted on October 16, 2007
Date set for important talks
Equity will meet with representatives of all the major broadcasters and independent producers in the British television industry this October.The union hopes these talks will represent the first steps towards a pan-industry agreement that will bring together the best of the many individual deals that currently exist.
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TV is Changing: on the road
Posted on October 16, 2007
TV is Changing is coming to you
Over the next few months an extensive series of cast visits is planned all across the country to give members working in the television industry a chance to discuss TV is Changing.
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Archive deal sets precedent
Posted on October 16, 2007
BBC trial agreed, payments secure
A closed trial lasting six months and encompassing 20,000 homes will give viewers access 950 hours of BBC archive material dating back to the 1940s.
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Sci-fi podcast breaks new ground
Posted on October 16, 2007
Blake’s 7 fly again
The return of Blake’s 7 is, no doubt, enough to set fans’ pulses racing across the internet. But the production of a series of podcast adventures based on the cult 70s sci-fi drama is as significant for Equity members as for the show’s fans.
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Deal for The Bill cast on podcasts
Posted on October 16, 2007
Coppers for podcasts
Negotiations on behalf of the cast of ITV drama The Bill not only secured the performers a fee for their work but also won them to the right for a further payment of 100% of their initial fee when downloads exceed an agreed level.
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Union and advertisers in talks
Posted on October 16, 2007
Deal in new media adverts
For the first time in almost a decade, Equity has held talks with the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) to discuss a deal on behalf of members working in television advertisements, spurred by demands by broadcasters for new media usage.
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