If the sole reason we can attract the industry are the “tax breaks”…
It’s a rubbish situation. Many of SAG-AFTRA’s demands seem fairly reasonable and the fact the studios refuse to budge on almost any of them is concerning, especially with them also looking to standardise the act of buying actors’ AI-created likeness for one day’s wages. This seems like the kind of thing you have to stop before it becomes commonplace or else hope the government decides to side with you over the wealth and influence of the studios with legislation, which seems unlikely. If a US actors’ strike is affecting UK production this badly, it’s hard to imagine their encroaching dystopian future not affecting the UK.
That doesn’t help the people who are now desperate, but it’s a rubbish no-win situation created by greedy people hoping the people they’re trying to exploit will “lose their homes” before getting an ounce of the respect and compensation they’re due.
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If the sole reason we can attract the industry are the “tax breaks”…
It’s a rubbish situation. Many of SAG-AFTRA’s demands seem fairly reasonable and the fact the studios refuse to budge on almost any of them is concerning, especially with them also looking to standardise the act of buying actors’ AI-created likeness for one day’s wages. This seems like the kind of thing you have to stop before it becomes commonplace or else hope the government decides to side with you over the wealth and influence of the studios with legislation, which seems unlikely. If a US actors’ strike is affecting UK production this badly, it’s hard to imagine their encroaching dystopian future not affecting the UK.
That doesn’t help the people who are now desperate, but it’s a rubbish no-win situation created by greedy people hoping the people they’re trying to exploit will “lose their homes” before getting an ounce of the respect and compensation they’re due.