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It is Wednesday, September 27th. They're back. The writer's strike officially ended at

12.01 this morning. The WGA is set to vote to ratify the contract,

and we finally got a look last night at the all-important terms of their deal. And they're pretty good.

The writers got wage increases, 5% in the first year, gains in both domestic and foreign residuals,

a bunch of other financial improvements. Those are similar to what the Directors Guild got.

That was negotiated without a five-month strike, of course. But there's a lot more here that

wasn't offered to the writers back on May 1st. On the issues we've talked about in the show,

they've got specific language in there that AI can't write or rewrite literary material.

An AI-gener generated material will not be

considered source material. That's important for the credit process. It basically means that

AI generated materials can't undermine a writer's credit. On the issue of minimum staffing for TV shows,

that's the number of writers the studios are required to hire. The writers got a sliding scale of three to

six writers depending on how many episodes. That's less than they asked for, but many people in town,

myself included, didn't think they get anything significant on that issue. There's also a guaranteeing

to hire writer producers throughout the process, which from people I've talked to is a big win.

And then the transparency issue, my hobby horse.

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