Jay Martel, a former showrunner for Key & Peele, is seeking class action status for a lawsuit against ViacomCBS and the WGA which he alleges signed a secretive deal that slashed royalties due writers for streaming views of dozens of ViacomCBS series including Key & Peele, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and Tosh.0.The suit — read here — filed yesterday in U.S.
District Court for the Central District of California alleges breach of a collective bargaining agreement and breach of duty of fair representation.It claims that ViacomCBS for years violated royalty payment terms of the WGA’s Basic Agreement “by improperly computing or simply not paying residuals owed for “new media” use, in particular ad-supported video-on-demand services.Between
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