首页
登录
职称英语
Effective Friday, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and
Effective Friday, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and
游客
2024-03-07
21
管理
问题
Effective Friday, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has declared a strike against 11 video game publishers over games that went into production after Feb. 17, 2015. The companies include some of the heavyweights of the industry, like Electronic Arts Productions, Insomniac Games, Activision and Disney.
The strike comes in light of an unsuccessful 19 months of negotiations after the existing labor contract known as the Interactive Media Agreement expired in late 2014. Overall, the strike is an effort to provide more secondary compensation along with other concerns, such as transparency upon hiring talent and on-set (制作中) safety precautions.
The video gaming industry has ballooned in recent years. The Los Angeles Times reports that the industry is in the midst of an intense increase in cash flow. In 2015, gaming produced $23. 5 billion in domestic revenue.
But SAG-AFTRA says voice actors don’t receive residuals (追加酬金) for their gaming work. Instead, they receive a fixed rate, which is typically about $825 for a standard four-hour vocal session. So the voice actors are pushing for the idea of secondary compensation—a performance bonus every time a game sells 2 million copies or downloads, or reaches 2 million subscribers, with a cap at 8 million.
"It’s a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue, " said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who’s a member of the union’s negotiating committee. "This is an important aspect of what it means to be a freelance (从事自由职业的) performer, who isn’t regularly employed every single day working on projects. "
Another major complaint from the actors is the secrecy of the industry. "I can’t imagine if there’s any other acting job in the world where you don’t know what show you’re in, when you’re hired, " says voice actor Keythe Farley, who chairs the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee.
"And yet that happens every day in the video game world, " Farley told reporters during a press conference Friday. "I was a main character in Fallout 4, a character by the name of Kellogg, and I never knew that I was doing vocal recording for that game throughout the year and a half. "
Scott Witlin, the lawyer representing the video game companies, says voice actors " represent less than one tenth of 1 percent of the work that goes into making a video game. " So "even though they’re the top craftsmen in their field, " Witlin says, " if we pay them under a vastly different system than the people who do the 99. 9 percent of the work, that’s going to create far more problems for the video game companies. " [br] Why did SAG-AFTRA declare a strike against some video game publishers?
选项
A、The labor contract between them had been violated.
B、Its appeal to renegotiate the contract had been rejected.
C、It had been cheated repeatedly in the 19 months of talks.
D、The negotiations between them had broken down.
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。由题干关键词定位到原文第二段第一句。定位句指出,2014年底现行的劳动合同即《互动媒体协议》到期后,工会和电子游戏业进行了长达19个月的协商,协商失败后,工会决定发动罢工。D项中的broken down对应定位句中的unsuccessful。故D为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3512755.html
相关试题推荐
Jeffectivestudentlearning和overseeingcredit-flexibilityexperiences定位到J段。该段说的是
[originaltext]Themostobviousdifferencebetweenradioandtelevisionist
[originaltext]InBritaintheweatherisnews.Atelevisionweatherforecast
A、cancovertheexpensesonthecarB、isn’taseffectiveasotherincentivesC、i
[originaltext]TodayI’mgoingtointroducesomeeffectiveskillsfortaking
[originaltext]W:Peter,haveyougotatelevision?M:Yes,Ihave.InfactI’ve
[originaltext]W:Peter,haveyougotatelevision?M:Yes,Ihave.InfactI’ve
EffectiveFriday,ScreenActorsGuild-AmericanFederationofTelevisionand
EffectiveFriday,ScreenActorsGuild-AmericanFederationofTelevisionand
EffectiveFriday,ScreenActorsGuild-AmericanFederationofTelevisionand
随机试题
期刊的宏观层次选题策划涉及期刊的()等。A.性质和宗旨 B.编辑方针 C.
铁路货物运输过程中,货物重量超过标重时,按货物重量计费的情况有( )。A.米、
沥青混合料摊铺设备,摊铺宽度小于9m的一般配备()名作业人员。A.2
请画出66kV母线接地信号回路。
治疗清气不升之耳鸣耳聋,可用( ) A.耳聋左慈丸 B.黄芪汤 C.益气
关于生长素的叙述,下列哪一项是错误的 A.促进骨、软骨、肌肉及其他组织的细胞分
甲、乙二人因共同杀人被一审法院分别判处死刑立即执行和无期徒刑。甲提出了上诉,乙未
患者女性,63岁,双侧下颌中切牙Ⅱ°松动;左上尖牙残根,左上第一磨牙残冠,拟分次
对个人股东股权转让所得征收个人所得税的主管税务机关是()。A.交易行为发生地税务
婴儿腹泻当补液纠正脱水与酸中毒后,患儿突然发生惊厥,首先考虑()。 A.补液量
最新回复
(
0
)