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the reporter, every weekend on d w. imagine how many portion of lots of turn out in the world climate change. the story, this is much less the way from just one week. how much was going to really get we still have time to act. i'm going to like this the, the hollywood writers return to the negotiating table to talk revenue sharing is that already a good sign for the union? which is now more than 100 days into a strike that has frozen the american tv and film industry. but also on our show,

chinese firms are buying into a few or european businesses for purchasing more licenses for potentially sensitive technology. we'll hear from an expert who says, governments should take note hello and welcome to the show. obviously, beardsley in berlin. writers in hollywood are resuming negotiations with the studios on friday today. so far, both sides have been far apart with revenue sharing, playing a central role. dr. didn't work. right. 10 words worked in march. april may, june, enjoy where the mother is doing it. was due to actor dan garza in his public. jess, i have joined the writer strike a strike that many here believed will stretch a well into the fall, disrupting the new season on tv, dashing movie marketing campaigns and creating more economic followed as writers and studios remains. far apart on most issues. well,

we'll be here forever. but just at some point the studios have to go get serious thinking they have to stop talking about how much money they're making and pay for it just to fit the writers and the performers. it affects every blind cartoons and make up in hair and are grips in our union and fold their own not working through. and then all of the people who, who failed stuff still like all of the distribution people. and although it's ineffective, every body the writers union argues that series for streaming services tend to be shorter than shows made for tv. for writers that means less work in smaller paychecks. on average, income for hollywood writers is almost $70000.00 a year. according to the bureau of labor statistics. economists have estimated the

financial tool including lost compensation at more than $3000000000.00. sony, for instance, just announced that it's profit will drop this year because of the ongoing strike. right, scott rock's pro joins me for more. scott, the head of the writers guild previously said that the union would not return to negotiations unless the studios were willing to discuss this is the issue of residual payments on streaming services. something that the studios had said was effectively off the table. does the fact that they're meeting today signal that the strike is actually already having some success as well? yes, i would say that the fact that they are going back to negotiating tables suggests that the right skill is starting to when it's argument with the ceos and not that they can be down or been sort of forced back to negotiating a table of the uh, there's gonna be a huge amount of solid areas support for the strength within the entertainment community. the not based on the actor to of course, are also

a problem on strikes that has a lot of pressure on the studios to find a solution and, and to, to go see that said, i think the 2 sides, you're still miles apart to get it in terms of demands so well, uh it is perhaps a good sign for the unions that there is a meeting happening today with the studios. i don't expect to see a solution any time soon, but we could be seen today, the beginning of what eventually will be the strikes. why is this issue of residuals or revenue sharing essentially for streaming so touchy, it's just a, such a key element of this negotiation key element of the demands of the writers union. because for hollywood, right, or a residuals are sort of like your pension. they are the guarantee that you will still be burning money, even if your show is dropped or even after you retire. essentially residuals means if you write on a show and then i guess rerun on a cable service or somewhere else. you get a check in the mail,

and that's been sort of the basis of business for a long time. but with the streaming, there's been new models introduced deluxe streamers. netflix and amazon will pay upfront a bowl song and will not here is it goes or is it goes, they'll pay a much lower rate of interest in traditional case and tv. now, the studios argue that they can't afford to pay the writers more because they're, you know, they're losing money. essentially, their box offices down the traditional or the, the television revenues that they're getting aren't nearly as high as they used to be. as always, have, they can't pay a more of what is they shrinking upon. but this issue of residuals is really key for the writers, because they say, if we give on this point, we're essentially going to be taking on all the risk and have none of the upside. and essentially could become something like daily or for the hollywood machine. alright, the w culture, scott rocks, bro, thank you very much. i is shifting

gears of the chinese investors are turning more often to licensing agreements to access german technology. well, that's according to federal data gathered by an economic think tank in the country . of the german economic institute says that licensing agreements from china have more than tripled since 2014, while outright acquisitions of german technology have lately fall. and much of the technology could be considered dual use, meaning it has both military and civilian applications. you're going bought. this has been looking into this issue for the german economic institute in cologne. you're gonna welcome back to the show. what are chinese companies getting out of licensing certain technologies versus purchasing into a company but obviously with purchasing it to accommodate you guys to full access to all technology, all the noise or company where you buy licensees. the busy you. ready our last 4 targeted. ready taxes, but if the colony is a,

is a wants to, to license solve the technology, then you can pick and choose is this, then a 2nd best option for many of these chinese firms because they can't buy into companies like they could maybe before, earlier in the decade it appears to be like this. oh, we have small restrictions indeed on the take over of european fors, especially critical info starts of fios and soft technology. lee in texas feels the goals treating us much more interested in terms of here and yours. so this could be kind of a back door for transfers, even though it is less comfortable and you get less access. um you might still go before cherry picking. um,

obviously provided that you are p companies. uh what you can give us. but if you pay a lot, maybe of their, for pets, it was a, we unfortunately know to little about this small back to there might have to be opened. can you, can you give us an example of the kind of technology being license here that has this kind of dual use application? well i'm, i'm also the engineer the expert. but obviously if you go into the . ready watch official intelligence. if you go into a cd conductors, obviously we, we, we go in and we are also military capacities become more and more innovative and technology oriented. and for all this is the you, if you need high computing power as well, the parents say the contractors um,

probably give you a advantage over about another country that might not have domestic not very briefly. is berlin taking steps to close off some of this licensing or to at least address it or screen it as well, i guess that so the latest already takes, you know, all that we will see. um, we probably know we, we have to get more notice on that this pertains to us this pertains to the policy makers. but um, i think this is to some extent, or at least already on the radar screen. also the property also russell's right. you're going back us with the german economic institute in cologne. thank you. thank you. over to us now, we're city officials and san francisco have voted in favor of allowing some companies to deploy self driving cars in the city without

a backup driver. and the companies are buying to build out their driverless taxi fleets. the development welcomed by some writers and projected by others. a late night driver list taxi ride the streets of san francisco, where these robo taxis could soon become as common as their man counterparts. now that a state board is allowing economists, vehicle firms ramo and crews to ramp up their services. here, from a few 100 cars, picking up test riders for free. and some only at off the traffic hours at night will now be able to charge the general public for automated rides. 247 robo taxi operator like huevo and cruz argue that eliminating human drivers from the equation mix passenger transport much safer because drivers can get drunk, tired or distracted while driving. that has come as welcome used to sharon giovanni nazzo, a test writer whose organization has a partnership with wayne. though, she says that as a blind person,

having no one to drive means having no one to discriminate against her as a passenger. and one of the things i found out with taxis and rights, your services, because i choose to have a guide dog to navigate the world, is they will lead me standing on the side of the street. and they will cancel rides even after they pull up and they see the dog. they don't want to have the dog in their vehicle. whereas here there's no opinion because there's no driver. then for me it's fully accessible, being able to access everything on the app. but not everyone has been on board for a taxi driver, say the cars make their roots more challenging for and causes them to fear the loss of their livelihoods. you and so we're here to say no, no, to her about the axis. no to robots, axes, and glitches do happen. for example, the car stands still when they get confused. i don't know why we're stuck. some say this is an argument to get as many of them on the road as often as possible because the cars learn from experience. but others believe these hiccups were

a reason to put the brakes on expansion funds and avoid involving san franciscans and what to sensually and experiment. there's a question at the core of all of this that doesn't just apply to san francisco, but to all cities in the world coming to grips with innovation. and that's this, at what point does society decide that a technology while in perfect, is safe enough to roll out on a mass scale, and that the benefits outweigh the unintended consequences. for now, california authorities have decided that that point has been reached, but far more important than the decision made in san francisco is the fact that the technology is here and cannot be reversed. and people will have to reckon with its impact moving forward. and here's a reminder of our top business story. this our, the writers in hollywood are resuming negotiations with the studios today. so far, both sides have been far apart with revenue sharing, playing a central role in the dispute. that's our show checks out on,

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