The guild can put you on trial and fine you and possibly suspend you.
If you are suspended it means signatories can't use you for work until you are off suspension.
Fines typically equal work payments (which means it can run into the tens of thousands of dollars, which they can possibly deduct from your residual payments if you don't pay them immediately by check)
The one above talked of Leno. If Leno got suspended for, say, six months, he couldn't go into a writer's meeting or suggest something for six months, nor could he come in with his own materials. He would be allowed to show up and do his script as an "actor." He couldn't re-write or change a word. Technically he couldn't tell a producer to change a line for him, but he could demand a re-write, but can't sepecify what or how. That would be left up to the writers and producers.
If he wrote monologues his fines could be $5,000 or $10,000 or even $20,000 for each episode. Since he makes millions that would be a drop in the bucket for him and NBC could pick it up for him, there is no rule against that.
If he's in the writer's guild and on six month suspension he couldn't "pencil in" changes on the cue cards himself nor tell someone what to pencil in.
He can, as the star or actor, DEMAND a line be changed, but can't specify to what, until he's off suspension.
He can omit or delete lines.
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If you are suspended it means signatories can't use you for work until you are off suspension.
Fines typically equal work payments (which means it can run into the tens of thousands of dollars, which they can possibly deduct from your residual payments if you don't pay them immediately by check)
The one above talked of Leno. If Leno got suspended for, say, six months, he couldn't go into a writer's meeting or suggest something for six months, nor could he come in with his own materials. He would be allowed to show up and do his script as an "actor." He couldn't re-write or change a word. Technically he couldn't tell a producer to change a line for him, but he could demand a re-write, but can't sepecify what or how. That would be left up to the writers and producers.
If he wrote monologues his fines could be $5,000 or $10,000 or even $20,000 for each episode. Since he makes millions that would be a drop in the bucket for him and NBC could pick it up for him, there is no rule against that.
If he's in the writer's guild and on six month suspension he couldn't "pencil in" changes on the cue cards himself nor tell someone what to pencil in.
He can, as the star or actor, DEMAND a line be changed, but can't specify to what, until he's off suspension.
He can omit or delete lines.
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