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Creative Rights Booklet This is a plain-English outline of the creative rights preserved for writers of film and television in the Writers Guild of America Theatrical and Television Basic Agreement.

Reacquiring Scripts In the MBA, there is a provision that allows writers to buy back their unproduced, original, theatrical scripts within a certain window.

Separated Rights Separated Rights is one of the most important, and perhaps least understood, areas of the WGA Basic Agreement. Due to the importance of Separated Rights, it is imperative that writers know and understand what these rights are and how they are obtained.

Producer's Checklist This outline is intended to guide a Company's compliance with some of the minimums of the WGA Theatrical and Television Basic Agreement.

Writer's Checklist The Guild provides this checklist as a quick reference to some of the rights to which you may be entitled under the WGA Minimum Basic Agreement. It also contains other information beneficial to writers working on films under the Writers Guild's jurisdiction.