Video game performers have been on strike since July 26, 2024, primarily over issues surrounding the usage of artificial intelligence and digital replicas. SAG-AFTRA leadership highlighted that negotiators are facing a stark disagreement about employers' demands to use actors' past performances without compensation or transparency. While certain games continue production under specific rules, union workers express solidarity by potentially withholding labor from projects involved in negotiations. Companies involved in the strike include Epic Games and Activision Blizzard, with significant pressure on firms like Formosa Interactive for their hiring practices.
They want to use all past performances and any performance they can source from outside the contract without any of the protections being bargained at all.
You could be told nothing about your replica being used, offered nothing in the way of payment, and you could do nothing about it.
...voice actors and other video game performers - even those not in the union - may withhold their labor in solidarity.
However, some companies, like Riot Games' League of Legends, are explicitly struck due to alleged bad behavior from the company it uses to hire voice actors.
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