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| I query this drafting | |
| Last Edit: pcot 07:17 pm EST 11/21/20 | |
| Posted by: pcot 07:12 pm EST 11/21/20 | |
| In reply to: Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA Reach Joint Agreement - Official_Press_Release 08:32 pm EST 11/19/20 | |
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| "either as a replacement for a live theater production (see Paragraphs 2.a and 2.b, below) that cannot take place because of the pandemic or for a partially virtual/digital audience that supplements a live audience during the pandemic period, in accordance with the following parameters" Not giving anyone advice, but this provision seems to require that it replaces a specific scheduled show. So if you announced "Squonk II: More Squonking" as part of your season, and you want to replace it with a paywalled stream or a tape, this jurisdictional provision sends it to AEA. If, however, you wanted to just get folks together to do a table reading of Squonk II, having never announced it for your season, or planned to stage it, I don't know that the singular ("a live theatre production...that cannot take place") allows AEA to displace SAG, and this would seem to leave everyone back at square one. Additionally, in the first scenario, AEA jurisdiction means that AEA will enforce the "parameters" against it, which cabins your audience. Structurally, you have the division of the spoils between the two guilds in [2] (if it's a direct replacement, it's an AEA contract), and then a long list of parameters [2a-2h] that AEA will enforce against the producer. So essentially, if you make substitute goods designed to match your initial product precisely, AEA gets it; and you have to follow the AEA parameters. Otherwise, at least in a possible adversarial reading (mine, one that is quite likely wrong, and should not be relied upon), we're still in the wild west. An older equity draftsman might have made that a plural, so that any major AEA theatres putting on an online show with the usual suspects have to cabin their audience and give everyone the usual health & pension weeks, while allowing the more innovative forays into the online streaming to remain on the quantum boundaries between SAG & non-SAG, with AEA out of the picture. Top of the head, likely wrong, don't rely, not advice, do not taunt happy fun ball. Cheers. ~pcot |
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| Posted by: ryhog 07:30 pm EST 11/21/20 | |
| In reply to: I query this drafting - pcot 07:12 pm EST 11/21/20 | |
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| I'll concede it is not a model of draftsmanship, but I don't read anything to require that the show be something previously planned, which seems to be your main point. I also think 2e informs the rest. But what do I know? LOL | |
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| re: I query this drafting | |
| Posted by: pcot 07:43 pm EST 11/21/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I query this drafting - ryhog 07:30 pm EST 11/21/20 | |
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| It doesn't have to be the same show as previously planned, but it seems that it does have to directly replace a show that was previously planned for AEA to assert primary jurisdiction. And you're right, 2e initially reads as a catch-all, but the phrasing in the permissive and the location in the parameters seems to imply that AEA isn't asserting jurisdiction over the small stuff -- SAG's basically saying: If you can compel them to bargain with you for that stuff, go for it. Again, though, just ruminating, don't rely. Cheers. ~pcot |
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| re: I query this drafting | |
| Last Edit: writerkev 06:46 am EST 11/22/20 | |
| Posted by: writerkev 06:44 am EST 11/22/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I query this drafting - pcot 07:43 pm EST 11/21/20 | |
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| I’m no expert and haven’t digested it to the degree you have. But it seems they’re using the phase “replacement for” as another way of saying “alternative to.” Perhaps that wording might have been clearer. Seems like the spirit of the argument is about cases where a streaming presentation replaces what ordinarily would have been done on stage, rather than a literal replacement of a particular production. | |
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| re: I query this drafting | |
| Posted by: pcot 10:56 am EST 11/22/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I query this drafting - writerkev 06:44 am EST 11/22/20 | |
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| Hm. Well, I hope you're right. AEA might cite the difference from the proposed waiver language as outside proof of that reading. But these understandings have to stand up to the other person's rational reading of the deal, and the deal doesn't become less binding if the other's reading prevails. Fingers crossed. Again, uninformed speculation on my part, no real expertise to offer on it. Just a union member struck by the plain terms of the deal that seems to concede a fair swathe of jurisdiction to the moving-picture & talkies types. ~pcot |
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| re: I query this drafting | |
| Posted by: ryhog 01:20 pm EST 11/22/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I query this drafting - pcot 10:56 am EST 11/22/20 | |
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| re "concede," the starting point is that AEA has no jurisdiction over any of this. The deal was an accommodation to AEA in the nature of comity. | |
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| re: I query this drafting | |
| Posted by: ryhog 07:58 pm EST 11/21/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I query this drafting - pcot 07:43 pm EST 11/21/20 | |
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| when I first read it, it seemed very heavily pitched to non-profits, but apparently a commercial producer can use it too, and ticketholders or subscribers seems to cover that. Ruminate on; just don't hibernate. | |
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