{"id":180194,"date":"2026-01-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/pact-equity-negotiating-on-artificial-intelligence-again-after-ballot\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:15:11","slug":"pact-equity-negotiating-on-artificial-intelligence-again-after-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/pact-equity-negotiating-on-artificial-intelligence-again-after-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Pact &#038; Equity Negotiating On Artificial Intelligence Again After Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/pact-equity-negotiating-artificual-intelligence-industrial-action-1236691307\/\">Pact &#038; Equity Negotiating On Artificial Intelligence Again After Ballot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/pact-equity-negotiating-artificual-intelligence-industrial-action-1236691307\/\">https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/pact-equity-negotiating-artificual-intelligence-industrial-action-1236691307\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-21 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"deadline.com\">deadline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pact and Equity union resume negotiations on new contracts related to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital scanning on film sets.<\/li>\n<li>An \u201cimproved offer\u201d has been made by Pact, which includes changes regarding AI protections aimed to address the concerns that led to previous industrial action threats by Equity.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the offer, Equity warns that industrial action is still possible.<\/li>\n<li>Equity had previously threatened a statutory ballot after a January 19 deadline, especially regarding refusal to consent to digital scanning on set.<\/li>\n<li>This negotiation follows a similar agreement made between the SAG-AFTRA union in the U.S. and studios, emphasizing &#8220;informed consent&#8221; for actors regarding digital replicas.<\/li>\n<li>Pact and Equity have been negotiating these contracts for almost two years, addressing various issues including pay, residuals, and specific conditions from streaming services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pact &#038; Equity Negotiating On Artificial Intelligence Again After Ballot https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/pact-equity-negotiating-artificual-intelligence-industrial-action-1236691307\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-21 05:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0G0A7319.jpg?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-180194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180196,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180194\/revisions\/180196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}