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Article: Actors Guild ruling ires home and away.(Screen Actors Guild )(Brief Article)
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- Screen Digest
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- May 1, 2002
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US body that represents actors launches a global ruling this month, causing fair amount of controversy and disagreement. Ever in the news, Screen Actors Guild (SAG: USA; +1/323 954 1600; www.sag.org) intends to launch Global Rule One in near future--extension of 69-year old domestic version. Ruling states that SAG members must work under SAG contracts anywhere in the world. Proposed internationalisation of SAG sphere of influence has provoked US Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to respond that this is beyond their scope and contravenes their current agreement.
Outside US, reaction has been especially hostile in Australia and New Zealand. In ...