Does the WGA 2026 MOA change the rule that AI-generated material is not literary or source material, and what exactly does the rule say?

The 2023 WGA MOA Article 72 states that AI/GAI-produced written material is not literary material and that Company-furnished GAI material is not source material for writing credit; the 2026 MOA (April 4, 2026) Item 15 expressly modifies only Paragraph G (meetings on GAI use and notice of GAI training licences of covered literary material). Curator qualifications: That 72.B and 72.C are unchanged in 2026 is an inference from absence in the extracted MOA (producer and curator searches agree), not a reading of a consolidated 2026 Basic Agreement. The 2026 MOA is a redline: text extraction merges struck and inserted words (e.g. "The foregoing provisionThis Paragraph G."), so absence/wording inferences from extraction need the formatted PDF. No legal or employment advice; applicability to a given engagement not determined. Limitations: Two MOA texts; consolidated MBA not read. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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