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The actors' unions have not yet opened negotiations; but the road map for digital media compensation laid out in recent agreements with both writers and directors raised the prospect that similar solutions could work with actors.
But the writers bitterly complained that the package was merely a public relations ploy, failing to meet the guilds' core demands, including an insistence on new- media compensation at a multiple many times what they have received for years from DVD sales.
SAG leaders, with their own contract set to expire June 30, have accused Aftra of undercutting their efforts for better terms in hotly disputed areas like new media compensation, the mechanism by which actors grant permission to reuse clips from shows in which they appear, and the integration of commercial products in television shows.
Hollywood's 12,000 writers walked off the job on Nov. 5 over the central issue of new media compensation, or how to pay writers for the use and reuse of work that appears on outlets like the Web.
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(The 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America West and the Writers Guild of America East went on strike on Nov. 5, partly over new-media compensation).
The Writers Guild of America East and the Writers Guild of America West, whose more than 12,000 writers have been on strike since Nov. 5 in large part over new-media compensation, have been trying to force those companies back to the bargaining table.
On Nov. 5, Tinseltown's scriptwriters traded their pencils for picket signs over issues of new-media compensation.
He Zhengsheng, who has been representing Heywood's family in China, said he had no comment on Mrs Heywood's statement and that there was no new information he could release to the media regarding compensation.
Moonves is the most richly compensated executive in traditional media; his total compensation in 2012 was sixty-two million dollars.
"Directors don't want to be embarrassed in the media by a compensation decision," said Yale D. Tauber, a compensation consultant who works with the board of Citigroup, among other clients.
But according to figures assembled for The New York Times by Equilar, which compiles data on executive compensation, media companies employ seven of the top 20 highest paid chief executives.
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