'So I think that's not necessarily a wild card, but it does change some of the stakes.'Īs a reference point, Fortmueller cites the lengthy strike between SAG-AFTRA and video game makers that ended in 2017. 'We haven't really seen them as part of these negotiations in the past,' she added. 'What's new about this is who's at the table, frankly,' Fortmueller said, listing companies such as Amazon, Apple and Netflix. And compared to the last big strike, which lasted from 2007 to 2008, new players are involved. It's a new version of their perennial disagreement over residual payments - the money that writers get when their material is reused. Writers and production companies are grappling with how to reconcile drastically different ideas of how the media business should handle streaming platforms. Here's a quick guide to what's different about this strike: What has changed with streaming? 'I think it has the potential to be one of the big ones.' 'I think this has the potential to be one of the longer strikes,' she said. The buildup of unresolved issues is just one reason, Fortmueller says, that the 2023 strike could last a while. It just didn't matter, because nobody was working anyway,' Kate Fortmueller, an assistant professor of entertainment and media studies at the University of Georgia, told NPR. 'Nobody cared if you went on strike in spring of 2020.

Culture Writers Guild of America goes on strike

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