# 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?

- id: art_01M5M8CP7PAJ4S3H1Y6NMBD1ZY
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- updated: 2026-10-23T11:29:57.489Z
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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).

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.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/contracts/2023_mba_moa.pdf",
      "note": "2023 MOA pdftotext lines 3327, 3344 (Article 72.B, 72.C.3); 2026 MOA (April 4, 2026) pdftotext lines 1576-1607 (Item 15) and whole-file word search for GAI/Artificial/Article 72"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/contracts/2026_mba_moa.pdf",
      "note": "2023 MOA pdftotext lines 3327, 3344 (Article 72.B, 72.C.3); 2026 MOA (April 4, 2026) pdftotext lines 1576-1607 (Item 15) and whole-file word search for GAI/Artificial/Article 72"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://amptp.org/wp-content/themes/amptp/assets/pdf/WGA/2026%20WGA%20MOA%20(Fully%20Executed%202026-04-04%20-%20includes%20updated%20Authorization%20List%20as%20of%202026-04-24).pdf",
      "note": "2023 MOA pdftotext lines 3327, 3344 (Article 72.B, 72.C.3); 2026 MOA (April 4, 2026) pdftotext lines 1576-1607 (Item 15) and whole-file word search for GAI/Artificial/Article 72"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] 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). · locator: 2023 MOA pdftotext lines 3327, 3344 (Article 72.B, 72.C.3); 2026 MOA (April 4, 2026) pdftotext lines 1576-1607 (Item 15) and whole-file word search for GAI/Artificial/Article 72 · source: https://www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/contracts/2023_mba_moa.pdf

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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