Productions Made for New Media. New Media, as defined for the purposes of this Collective Agreement, applies to the production of content available through the internet or accessible on any digital device, including, but not limited to, on-demand networks, online newspapers, advertisements, blogs, wikis, mobile apps, set-top apps, social media, and any other current or future means of mass communications using digital technologies with the exclusion of “Derivative New Media Production” as defined below.
Productions Made for New Media a. Delete the following language from the preamble to the Sideletter re: Productions Made for New Media to the Basic Agreement and Videotape Agreement: “When the parties entered into the 2015 negotiations, they mutually understood that the economics of New Media production were uncertain and that greater flexibility in terms and conditions of employment was therefore mutually beneficial. The parties understood that if one or more business models developed such that New Media production became an economically viable medium, then the parties would mutually recognize that fact in future agreements. “During the 2018 negotiations, in recognition of emerging subscription video-on-demand services exhibiting mid-budget and high budget dramatic productions, the parties agreed to modify the terms and conditions for “mid-budget” dramatic productions made for subscription video-on-demand consumer pay New Media platforms as provided in Paragraph D. below and the terms and conditions for “high budget” dramatic productions made for subscription video-on-demand consumer pay New Media platforms as provided in Paragraph G. below.”
Productions Made for New Media. Update the reference to the Producer-IATSE Basic Agreement in footnote 3 to Sideletter No. 3 as follows:
Productions Made for New Media a. Modify Paragraphs D. and E. of the Sideletter re: Productions Made for New Media as follows:
Productions Made for New Media a. See the attached charts for changes to terms and conditions for certain High Budget SVOD Programs.
Productions Made for New Media. Provisions agreed to by the parties regarding Productions Made for New Media in the Productions Made for New Media Sideletter in the 2015 IATSE Basic Agreement and Sideletter N in the 2015 Local 839 Agreement are deemed to be incorporated into this Agreement.
Productions Made for New Media a. See the attached charts for changes to terms and conditions for certain High Budget SVOD Programs.
b. Renew the Sideletters re Productions Made for New Media in the Feature and Television Production Agreement and the Supplemental Digital Production Agreement.
Productions Made for New Media a. Delete the second and third paragraphs of Exhibit C re: Productions for New Media to the Local #798 Major Film Theatrical and Television Series Agreement and of Sideletter No. 5 re: Productions for New Media of the Local #798 Supplemental Digital Production Agreement.
b. See attached charts for changes to terms and conditions for High Budget SVOD Programs.
Productions Made for New Media. The parties hereby confirm that the Basic Crafts Unions do not have jurisdiction over productions made for new media. [Note added by Local 399: Local 399 will organize new media and negotiate terms comparable to the Black Book.]
Productions Made for New Media. This Sideletter confirms the understanding of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (hereinafter "the IATSE"), on behalf of itself and The Animation Guild and Affiliated Optical Electronic and Graphic Arts, Local #839, on the one hand, and the Producers signatory to the successor agreement to the 2012 Agreement between Producer and The Animation Guild and Affiliated Optical Electronic and Graphic Arts, Local #839 (collectively "the parties"), on the other hand, concerning the terms and conditions applicable to the production of entertainment motion pictures of the type that have traditionally been covered under the Local #839 Agreement (hereinafter "the Local #839 Agreement"), that are made for the Internet, mobile devices, or any other new media platform in existence as of August 1, 2009 (hereinafter collectively referred to as "New Media")1 With respect to such productions intended for initial use in new media, the parties agree as follows:
