By Dyana Carmella

According to what I’ve been hearing (and reading), The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and the studios are approaching the end of a deal that could lead to a new prime time TV contract. They’re apparently following the footsteps of the Writers Guild, which helped to conclude the 100-day strike that drastically hurt our industry. In the AFTRA deal, residual payments for actors would increase when their movies and TV shows are sold online. This would create a payment method for content that is now downloaded for free.

Since content distribution is rapidly moving toward the Web, any compensation opportunity is going to be sought after. I’m surprised it has taken this long for people to realize what’s going on over the Web and I’m very hopeful that this is resolved quickly, so everyone can get back to work.

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