The AMPTP, meanwhile, said in a statement that SAG-AFTRA continues to “mischaracterize” the two parties’ discussions. “Not only does its press release deliberately distort the offers made by AMPTP, it also fails to include the proposals offered verbally to SAG-AFTRA leadership on July 12,” the alliance said.
The AMPTP, meanwhile, called its offer on the rapidly changing technology “groundbreaking” and said it “protects performers’ digital likenesses, including a requirement for performer’s consent for the creation and use of digital replicas or for digital alterations of a performance.” There were some areas where they reached early tentative agreements, however . On self-taped auditions, one major area of concern for the union, which maintains that these kinds of tryouts place undue burden on performers, the union says the studios and streamers “tentatively agreed to some but not all necessary regulations,” including a compromise on turnaround times, but without a real means of enforcement.