SAG-AFTRA won’t budge as studios push to own actors’ likenesses in perpetuity

/ Talks to bring SAG-AFTRA’s labor strike to an end have broken down again because Hollywood’s studios want unfettered access to and ownership of actors’ likenesses.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge

Though negotiators from both the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) met this past weekend in hopes of bringing Hollywood’s ongoing labor strike to an end, contract talks have reportedly stalled once again due to the

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