SAG-AFTRA to Resume Video Game Contract Talks Next Week

The actors’ guild will also stage a picket line at the Warner Bros. lot on Wednesday

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Three months after going on a video game strike, SAG-AFTRA will be returning to the negotiating table with the companies that sign on to the Interactive Media Agreement on Oct. 23.

Among the companies that are signatories are Disney, Activision, Electronic Arts, and Warner Bros. Games, the latter of whose offices will be picketed by the actors’ guild this Wednesday.

Both sides did not comment further on the resumed talks, which will occur under a media blackout as is customary for labor negotiations.

SAG-AFTRA announced the strike back in July, saying that while it had come to terms with the IMA companies on nearly all issues after more than a year of on-and-off talks, they were at an impasse on protections for artificial intelligence replication of voice actors and motion capture performers’ voices, movements and likeness.

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