November 29, 2007

UK writers show US strike support

_44268792_strike_ap_body.jpg British film and TV writers have held a demonstration in London to show their support for striking US screenwriters. The
BBC reports.

"Scores of writers rallied outside the Trades Union Congress buildingWriters Guild of America"

Mark Burton, whose credits include Wallace and Gromit, said the issue at stake was how creative artists are paid in the digital world.

Further protests were held in Paris, Berlin and four Australian cities."

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