As We Were Saying...

If you're a Canadian producer, I don't know how you're not screaming that you get treated differently than big American productions on new media rights, but whatever.

From Playback (by the way, Playback Daily rocks!):

Actors and producers have a deal -- again

ACTRA, the CFTPA and its sister APFTQ on Tuesday finalized terms on a tentative three-year deal to end Canada's first-ever actors strike.

As part of the revised IPA deal, producers may choose either Option A or Option B to pay ACTRA members for performances that show up on the Internet or other new media. Option A will see actors receive a full daily rate for new media work, and then earn 3.6% of gross distribution revenues after six months of initial use. For old media converted to digital media, including TV shows, ACTRA members will this time receive a percentage of revenues from the first dollar.

Producers can also choose Option B, which allows negotiating with ACTRA on a production-by-production basis, setting minimum fees for Canadian actors.

The catch is, productions choosing Option B must be guaranteed by an approved distribution guarantor --¬ in other words, must be a U.S. studio shoot, without being designated by name as such in the IPA agreement.

Full Playback article is here.