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Report on Writer -Producer Credits
Membership approval of the new set of rules for writer-producer credits was voted at the May 10th meeting. These rules were proposed by the Credits Committee to guide arbitration committees in their understanding of Paragraph F in the recently negotiated, new Schedule A which will be signed by the producers. That paragraph provides:
"Unless the screen play writing is done entirely without the collaboration of any other writer, no designation of tentative screen play credit to a production executive shall become final or effective unless approved by a credit arbitration as herein provided, in accordance with the Guild rules for the determination of such credit."
The term production executive is interpreted by the Guild to mean writing directors and/or writing producers.
The following rules have been adopted to govern writing credits of production executives when other writers are involved :
1. The production executive must signify in writing to the Guild and to any other writer assigned to the script that he intends to claim collaboration credit. This must be done at the time he starts to work as a writer.
2. At the time of the credit arbitration, the production executive must assume the burden of proving that he had in fact worked on the script as a writer and had assumed his full share of the writing, which, in any event, must amount to a contribution of no less than 50 per cent of the final script.
3. If two or more writers, in addition to the production executive are employed, and the production executive has contributed at least 50 per cent of the final script, that writer contributing the largest additional percentage shall share credit with the production executive, provided his is a substantial contribution, without necessarily being the usually required 33^3 per cent.
4. In the instance of a team working in active collaboration, one or both of whom exercise the function of production executive, in order for the production executive to receive credit it will be required that the team contribute at least 60 per cent of the final script. Any writer, however, who works on the script will be entitled to credit for any substantial contribution without necessarily meeting the usually required 33^3 per cent.
Decisions of Arbitration Committees are based upon written material. In the event of conflicting claims, written evidence always prevails. Production executives, as well as writers, should therefore keep dated copies of all material written by them for submission to the Arbitration Committee.
18 The Screen Writer, May, 194