Page 91 - RICHERT VS. SORKIN THEFT OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT AND THE WEST WING

projects each developed for the same actor or actors),
.business continuity, and
.creative continuity.
The Guild does not look to an expert reader to read all the literary material until and only if business continuity is established.
With business continuity established then the Guild enlists an expert reader to determine creative continuity.
And the expert reader is not to address chain of title issues because, as the written procedure for a participating writer investigation unequivocally
states, that is "outsi.de the expertise of the expert reader." Expert readers are enlisted from the Screen Credits Committee.
That is the same Committee of writer-members who sit on pre-arbitration panels, consult on arbitrations, and sit on policy review boards.
And so it is written down that the members from the Screen Credits Committee who sit on pre-arbitration panels do not have the expertise to address chain of title issues.
Yet that is exactly what the pre-arbitration panel on THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT did - looked at the chain of title - and only that - in making