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Originally Posted by dtennent
One of the concerns that the background actors have is having their image digitized and used in future productions without payment. They get paid for the one day/week that they are on the set and the studio would own their image forever. These folks, unlike the megastars, aren’t making millions. How many of you would be happy with that situation?
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I think this is a bit of the telephone game. They’ve been scanning actors and background for a long time. Similar idea is… VFX… say you need a bug crawling on a person. You pay big bucks for them to create that bug BUT you can now use that bug for much much less in other scenes. You certainly can’t use that bug in other films or projects. Even if it’s the same studio they’d have to buy another bug. I’m guessing the offer was to pay the BG more money to scan them for that project only. AMPT aren’t stupid…..Wouldn’t it be great if we could all see what the real offers were? I should’ve have mentioned I’m currently in 2 unions. The DGA and IATSE. I feel bad for the thousands of IATSE crew members unemployed now because of these strikes.