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Article: Waiting for a bigger role in video games.(Media & Technology)(relation between the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Video games industry)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 11, 2005
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Video game publishers and actors' unions disagree on whether actors should get residual payments--like they do for movies, commercials and TV.
To date, publishers have treated actors as contractors, paid on a daily or hourly basis. But in the 10 years since the first contract was signed, the video game industry has grown to $25 billion in annual sales. More and more games these days are tied to characters in movies.
Still, actors' unions do not have the same clout with game publishers as they do in film or TV. And the technology industry does not have a history of unionized labor force.
Background
The unions' joint contract with video ...