For those of you who have optioned/sold a screenplay, I wondered if there were any creative rights you requested in your contract. I'm WGA, so I'm pretty much guaranteed some rights, but the WGA also says that you can refer to the PBS Agreement to include overscale creative rights. Since those don't cost anything, I'm hoping to include some in my newest contract. However, I'm not sure exactly what to ask for. Any advice?
Here's what I'm referring to:
https://www.wga.org/contracts/know-y...ts-for-writers
"There is no legal impediment to writers and their representatives negotiating overscale deals in the creative rights areas. These provisions would not generally cost the employer more money, would provide the writer with a more satisfying working relationship, and would likely yield a better theatrical motion picture or television program. This information should increase awareness of writers' rights under the Guild agreement, and also expand opportunities for writers to negotiate enhanced creative rights in their individual contracts.
The PBS Agreement
There is a separate agreement between the Guild and certain public television stations and producers, the WGA Public TV Freelance Agreement, also known as the PBS Agreement, which sets out the minimum terms of agreements between Guild writers and public television producers. Similar to the MBA in many respects, the PBS agreement establishes substantial and enhanced creative rights for writers of public television programs. Many of the PBS creative rights provisions may serve as goals for enhanced creative rights you can negotiate in your individual contract with non-PBS producers. Writers may negotiate, for example, to incorporate all of the PBS creative rights in a non-PBS contract, or to elect from among them."
Here's what I'm referring to:
https://www.wga.org/contracts/know-y...ts-for-writers
"There is no legal impediment to writers and their representatives negotiating overscale deals in the creative rights areas. These provisions would not generally cost the employer more money, would provide the writer with a more satisfying working relationship, and would likely yield a better theatrical motion picture or television program. This information should increase awareness of writers' rights under the Guild agreement, and also expand opportunities for writers to negotiate enhanced creative rights in their individual contracts.
The PBS Agreement
There is a separate agreement between the Guild and certain public television stations and producers, the WGA Public TV Freelance Agreement, also known as the PBS Agreement, which sets out the minimum terms of agreements between Guild writers and public television producers. Similar to the MBA in many respects, the PBS agreement establishes substantial and enhanced creative rights for writers of public television programs. Many of the PBS creative rights provisions may serve as goals for enhanced creative rights you can negotiate in your individual contract with non-PBS producers. Writers may negotiate, for example, to incorporate all of the PBS creative rights in a non-PBS contract, or to elect from among them."
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