Directors UK Urges Residuals From Streamers & Threatens Action If They Don’t Come To The Table
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The battle for improved streaming residuals in the U.S. has at least partly been won but in the UK it is only just beginning.
Deadline can reveal that Directors UK (DUK), the body and collection society representing British directors, has written to Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Paramount, Apple and Warner Bros.
Discovery (WBD) in the past few weeks seeking royalties for its plus-8,000 members. And in a move that raises the stakes, DUK’s letter said that the body could potentially withhold its members copyright from the streamers in future if they don’t come to the table and attempt to strike deals, we understand.
While Deadline has not seen the letter, we understand it has been doing the rounds in industry circles of late and could become a talking point at this week’s Edinburgh TV Festival.
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