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The
Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers has agreed to
ensure humans are credited as writers of screenplays, instead of
replacing them with AI, the report said, adding that the
companies would also share data on the number of hours viewed on
streaming services.
Other parts of the offer include a better-than-20% increase in
residual payments to writers when their shows appear on networks
other than the one they were made for, Bloomberg said.
Netflix Co-Chief Executive Officer Ted Sarandos has emerged as a
strong force and Walt Disney Co CEO Bob Iger, in recent weeks,
has joined him in seeking to reach a deal with the writers, the
report added.
The union representing striking Hollywood writers said on Friday
it had received a counterproposal from the studios that it would
consider, an apparent sign of progress in the more than
100-day-old strike.
The strike by Hollywood writers began on May 2 after talks
between the WGA and the major studios reached an impasse over
compensation, minimum staffing of writers' rooms and residual
payments in the streaming era, among other issues.
The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers and
Writers Guild of America didn't immediately respond to a Reuters
request for comment.
(Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill
and Cynthia Osterman)
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