Focus (Forum & Focus)
Dec. 7, 2007
Writers' Guild Takes on Producers for Rights to Unfinished Scripts
Forum Column - By Tony Segall - A challenge to the Writers Guild of America's efforts to monitor the scripts of striking screenwriters is testing the cohesiveness of the union's membership.
By Tony Segall
The landscape of Los Angeles is currently dotted with red and black picket signs carried at the gates of Hollywood's major studios and television networks. The first legal skirmish of the Writers Guild of America's strike, however, does not involve the physical picket line, but rather the WGA's efforts to prevent strikebreaking of a different kind - the covert writing and submission of "scab" script...
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