We've been talking on the TAG Blog about the issue of foreign levies for almost as long as there's been a TAG Blog. Recently, we've been participating in settlement hearings regarding a lawsuit filed against the Writers Guild of America, west (WGAw) over the collection of foreign levies residuals.
Specifically, we’ve begun attempts to work with the WGAw to collect and distribute money from the European Union owed to animation writers, from a tax on blank videocassettes and DVDs on behalf of the “creative authors” of animated films and shows.
For years we have had an arrangement with the Directors Guild, which collects and distributes these monies on behalf of animation directors, and as a result many members and non-members have profited. Unfortunately, at least until recently the Writers Guild has been less cooperative in helping get these funds into the hands of animation writers and other non-WGAw members.
Now the WGAw has sent us a list of animation writers that may be owed some of this money. In checking the list against our records, we’ve found thirty-three names (see below) that we’re unable to contact, either because they’ve never belonged to the Animation Guild or because they’re inactive and we do not have a current address.
What we need is contact information – addresses, phone numbers and/or e-mails – for the persons listed, so that we and the WGAw can contact them and arrange for them to receive the funds they are owed. Some of these people may not, in fact, have written for animation, but we will work to get them in contact with the WGAw in any event. Please understand that TAG does not have records of how much money (if any) is owed to these or any other animation writers.
Please contact Jeff Massie at jeffm@animationguild.org or (818) 845-7500 ext. 110 if you can be of assistance or if you have any questions. All information will be held in strictest confidence between TAG and the WGAw.
MISSING CONTACT INFORMATION Writers who may be owed foreign levies monies as of 5/14/2010
- Casey Alexander
- Berkeley Anderson
- Joel Barkow
- Keith Blocker
- Jeff Borkin
- Fred Brunish
- Peter Burns
- Sabatino Ciuffini
- Walter Coleman
- Jack Cosgriff
- Raven Farquhar
- Janet Greene
- Jeff Holder
- Peggy Holmes
- Scott Landis
- Phil Lorin
- Lisa Maliari
- Robert May
- Joseph Molinari
- Kiel Murray
- Larry Parr
- Anne-Marie Perrotta
- Jan Pinkava
- Michael Reynolds
- Carlo Romano
- Don Rosa
- Tony Schillaci
- Tean Schultz
- Michael Steinbeck
- Zach Stones
- Enrique Torres Tudela
- Kent Wadsworth
- William Winkler
NOTE: I've turned off comments on this post to emphasize that the contact information we are collecting will be kept strictly and totally confidential. Please contact us as specified above if you have information on anyone on this list. Thanks!
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