Both Sides in Writers’ Strike See New-Media Future at Stake
"The nearly month-old strike by screenwriters has entered a new and perhaps uglier phase, revealing the conflict for what it has been all along: not so much a tiff over industry economics as a struggle for power over Hollywood’s perceived digital future."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/business/media/01strike.html?_r=1&ref=television&oref=slogin
"The guilds also said the companies refused to grant them union jurisdiction over original content produced for the Internet." I take that to mean that if the studios backed a web serial they wouldn't have to use WGA writers.
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