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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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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