Josh Smith Online

Woohoo, its time to power on those laptops and fire up the office coffeemaker again! The Writers Guild has approved a deal which brings the Writer’s strike to an end. This means that favorites such as How I met your mother, Lost, Criminal Minds and more are returning to the studio for writing and filming.

Michael Winship, president of WGA’s East guild, said, “The success of this strike is a significant achievement not only for ourselves but the entire creative community, now and in the future.”

WGA members walked off the job November 5 after talks broke down over how writers are paid for the use of their material on the Internet and DVDs, among other issues.

“It is not all that we hoped for, and it is not all we deserve,” Verrone said when a tentative deal was announced Saturday. But he added, “This is the best deal this guild has bargained for in 30 years.”

I am glad that the writers are going to be compensated for works distributed digitally and I can only hope that this issues doesn’t become this divisive in the future.

CNN: Strike over, Hollywood writers head back to work

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