Guild of Screenwriters Of Ukraine Expresses Solidarity With WGA Amid Writer Strike
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The newly formed Guild of Screenwriters of Ukraine (GSU) has backed up their American equivalent, with GSU president Andriy Babik telling the WGA to “be brave, like Ukraine.” He also said, “Ukrainian screenwriters definitely support the strike of their American colleagues and fully share their philosophy, which is based on a clear and understandable definition: a screenwriter is a creator of history, and this should be evaluated appropriately.”
“There is practically no such thing in the Ukraine,” added the GSU of collective agreements. “We do not work under a collective agreement between the screenwriters’ union and the producers’ union, but under an individual agreement between an individual screenwriter and an individual producer, and this significantly increases the legal insecurity of screenwriters. We completely do not have such a concept and such a process as royalty.”
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The GSU has joined Guilds in Australia, Canada, India, and the UK in their support of the WGA, as writing guilds from each of these nations have ordered their writers to refuse to take work for the duration of the WGA’s strike. The GSU has also commented on the idea of AI in writing, stating it had “possible consequences of its use in creativity.”
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