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[-] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One of the main features of this strike is the companies are trying to get extras to sign away their likenesses. The companies then intend to use their likenesses "for eternity and in every universe" (the actual wording) as computer generated images to abolish their jobs entirely. Actors are not particularly happy about the attempt to get them to do work that will abolish their own existence, and the higher paid actors see it as inevitable that this expands to include them to if they don't fight it now.

There is nobody avoiding the strike at this point. Everything has ground to a halt. If anything starts again the guilds for crews, camera operators etc are planning to join.

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