SAG-AFTRA won’t budge as studios push to own actors’ likenesses in perpetuity

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Though negotiators from both the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) met this past weekend in hopes of bringing Hollywood’s ongoing labor strike to an end, contract talks have reportedly stalled once again due to the desire of studios to own performers’ digitally scanned likenesses in perpetuity.
Previously, the AMPTP insisted that its most recent proposed contract was its “