LOS ANGELES - The board of directors of the Directors Guild of America has voted unanimously to recommend ratification of a deal with Hollywood studios.
The three-year collective bargaining agreement reached Jan. 17 establishes key provisions involving compensation for programs offered on the Internet.
"We achieved our three primary goals: jurisdiction in new media, which was absolutely essential; compensation for the use and reuse of our work in new media; and significant gains on issues of real importance for our work in traditional media," DGA President Michael Apted said in a statement Sunday.
The deal between directors and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios, has been lauded by top executives from eight major companies, including News Corp.'s Fox divisions, Paramount Pictures Corp., The Walt Disney Co., CBS Corp., Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros., MGM and NBC Universal.
The ballot will now go to the DGA's 13,500 members for ratification.
The issue of compensation for internet distribution has also been a key sticking point between striking writers and the studios, which broke off talks on Dec. 7.
