Agreement - Writers Guild of Canada

modified to the extent necessary to cause it to conform to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement and, as modified, the individual contract shall
continue in full force and effect.
A706 When two or more Writers are involved in the writing of a Script, each
Writer shall have an individual contract with the Producer, except in the
case of a Team, in which case there may be one contract.
A707 A Notice of Engagement form as in Appendix E shall be filed with the
Guild if there is not yet a signed contract. A copy of every contract between
a Writer, Story Editor or Story Consultant and any Producer adhering to this
Agreement shall be deposited with the Guild office by the Producer within
seven (7) days of the signing of the contract. Copies of contracts provided
to the Guild are to be strictly confidential between the Producer, the Writer,
Story Editor or Story Consultant, and officers of the Guild. The information
contained in these contracts is not to be released by the officers of the Guild
to any other persons.
A708 a) Nothing in this Agreement or any individual contract to which this
Agreement applies shall diminish any otherwise-existing right of the
Writer to collect any of the so-called “author’s share” of Secondary Use
Payments in connection with any production based on Script Material.
b) Nothing in this Agreement or any individual contract to which this
Agreement applies shall diminish any otherwise-existing right of the
Producer to collect any of the so-called “producer’s share” of Secondary
Use Payments in connection with any production based on Script
Material.
c) In this Section A708, “Secondary Use Payments” means the net amounts
collected and then distributed by collective societies” (e.g. SACD,
AGICOA) in respect of
i) the retransmission outside North America, and/or
ii) the performance, communication to the public (including
broadcasting worldwide but excluding retransmission in North
America), private copying, rental and lending anywhere in the world,
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