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Actors Board Narrowly Backs Contract Deal

Pact bumps pay 3.5% but nixes bucks for online reruns

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(Newser) – A two-year contract narrowly approved by the board of the Screen Actors Guild board would boost pay 3.5% a year, but dodges payment for most online reruns. The pact, which would cover film and TV actors, was passed by just 53% of the newly elected moderate board, and now faces a full membership vote, the Los Angeles Times reports. The issue over Internet residuals has split the membership, but the contract is expected to pass.

Pickets stand beneath a billboard advertising Hugh Laurie and the television series 'House' as members of the Screen Actors Guild and others demonstrate in Los Angeles last month.
Pickets stand beneath a billboard advertising Hugh Laurie and the television series 'House' as members of the Screen Actors Guild and others demonstrate in Los Angeles last month.   (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Members of the Screen Actors Guild demonstrate outside 20th Century-Fox studios in Los Angeles last month.
Members of the Screen Actors Guild demonstrate outside 20th Century-Fox studios in Los Angeles last month.   (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Pickets hold signs criticizing studios and major stars beneath a billboard showing actor Mickey Rourke in the Oscar-nominated film, 'The Wrestler.'
Pickets hold signs criticizing studios and major stars beneath a billboard showing actor Mickey Rourke in the Oscar-nominated film, 'The Wrestler.'   (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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