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Representing @EquityUK members across the audio industry in the UK. linktr.ee/EquityAudio

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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
. @equityuk.bsky.social urges members to take care when reviewing contracts - and usage terms - for similar projects. A powerful example of collective action delivering results. When members stand together, supported by their union, better standards can be won. ✊🏻 www.equity.org.uk/advice-and-s...
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Equity Audio Info Hub
Everything you need to know about working as an Audio Artist and your trade union
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
IMPORTANT WIN FOR AUDIO ARTISTS WORKING FOR YOTO @equityuk.bsky.social has won significantly improved pay & stronger terms for a group of union members engaged w/ the YOTO platform, part of the fast-growing children’s audio players market. Read all about it here: www.equity.org.uk/news/2026/wi...
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Win for Yoto audio artists | Equity
Equity wins improved pay and stronger terms for union members working in the fast-growing children’s audio players market.
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Ever worked in dubbing? @equityuk.bsky.social needs YOU to fill out the Audio Dubbing Survey. It takes 2-3 minutes and will help towards fairer rates in the sector. All data will be anonymised. Thanking you in advance and do please RT or share with others. forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Microsoft Forms
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It's time to vote for which motion @equityuk.bsky.social members send to @The_TUC Congress. This year, @equityaudio.bsky.social are recommending that members vote for #EquityWomen's important motion for new protections against AI digital scanning and deep fakes. Vote '1' here: bit.ly/4mcKLlW 🗳️✊🏻
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NAVA @navavoices.org · 16/02/2026
NAVA condemns the unauthorized use of any person’s voice, image, name and/or likeness, and stands with actors, studios, and creatives in solidarity against Bytedance’s new AI video generation tool, Seedance 2.0. Only when we stand together, can we make a difference. Share this message. #navavoices
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🚨AUDIO ARTISTS - THE NAVA VOICEOVER SURVEY IS LIVE AND NEEDS YOU. All the (anonymous) data received is incredibly important in making our industry and our work better and fairer. Open all this week until Sunday 22nd. Please share with your VO networks. 🎙️✊🏻
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
A great and galvanising day. Thank you to everyone who attended. #UnionContractsInGamingNOW #GameOn
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Sarah Elmaleh @selmaleh.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Half the battle is realizing nothing is inevitable, no matter how hard the sell. The harder the sell, the more dubious the value. When folks say “the genie is out of the bottle”, it doesn’t mean “and now we must invite him to all of our parties.”
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Equity @equityuk.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Videogames performer? Join our open meeting at the National Videogames Museum Sheffield, 4 November. Whether you’re an Equity member or not, join us to make a plan for how to change the games industry for the better. #VideoGames www.equity.org.uk/get-involved...
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Videogames Network Roadshow: Sheffield | Equity
Whether you’re an Equity member or not, we want to hear about your stories of working in the industry, and make a plan together for how to change things in the videogames industry for performers.
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Equity @equityuk.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Last chance to have your say! If you’ve been a participant on a UK reality TV show, improve working practices in the sector by taking this anonymous survey⬇️ Your answers will support the work of ReCARE-TV, a major academic project investigating reality TV and duties of care tinyurl.com/225meets
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Microsoft Forms
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🎮 EQUITY GAMES NETWORK ACTION DAY Equity member working in games? Want to share yr experiences of the industry with fellow workers? Come to @equityuk.bsky.social's Games Network Action Day, Thurs 6th Nov 10:30am - 4pm in Bloomsbury, London. Register here: tr.ee/oNz2hRQDg4 ✊🏻🎮
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🎙️ AUDIO ARTISTS BEWARE Scammers are targeting audio artists more than ever. We’ve received real stories from @equityuk.bsky.social members who lost work and money to fake clients. Learn the red flags 🚩 and how to protect yourself...
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🎮 EQUITY GAMES NETWORK ACTION DAY Equity member working in games? Want to share yr experiences of the industry with fellow workers? Come to @equityuk.bsky.social's Games Network Action Day, Thurs 6th Nov 10:30am - 4pm in Bloomsbury, London. Register here: tr.ee/oNz2hRQDg4 ✊🏻🎮
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Our colleague, activist & AI rights expert, Dr. #MathildePavis has created a vital AI Deal Checklist on what artists and agents should look for when engaging. Even better, she has authorised us to share it for free. 🥹🙏🏻 Find it via our linktree here: tr.ee/j8XL0IketP
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Equity @equityuk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Time for tech companies and producers to strike a collective agreement on performers’ rights. AI companies need to know that Equity will be putting in subject access requests en masse. They have a statutory obligation to respond. 👇 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Equity threatens mass direct action over use of actors’ images in AI content
Union says growing numbers of its members have made complaints about infringements of copyright in AI material
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"My income has reduced by 70 per cent in the last two years. I know that AI is a big factor in that." - #MarcusHutton “The quiet moments have been a lot quieter. Scary quiet. So quiet that I’ve gone, ‘Oh my god I need to retrain'." - #LaurenceBouvard #StopAIStealingTheShow @equityuk.bsky.social ✊🏻
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"It's terrifying." 🚨 AUDIO ARTISTS LIVING IN FEAR OF AI This weekend's article in The Telegraph featuring Equity Audio's #MarcusHutton and @equityuk.bsky.social Screen & New Media's #LaurenceBouvard. Thank you to both for highlighting this issue so eloquently. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/actors-...
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
👇🏿👇🏼👇🏻
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
With thanks to Doug Turkel for inspiring us with his great article on the @navavoices.org site. navavoices.org/vo-scams-red...
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Protect yourself! 8 Voice Over Scams and Red Flags
Voice over scams aren’t going away, but protecting yourself from the vast majority of them is as easy as following One. Simple. Rule.
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
🚨AUDIO JOBS SCAM ALERT🚨 We're aware of a recent increase in scammers advertising fake jobs trying to exploit and extort money/fees from @equityuk.bsky.social members. Be on the alert for anything from our watchlist below and if you have any doubts at all, email audio@equity.org.uk. Please RT
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Good. Thank you, @equityuk.bsky.social.
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🚨 THIS MORNING AT 11AM 🚨 Do come and ask us anything you like about our new Audiobook Recommended Minimum Rates and Best Practice. We'd love to see you. 😊
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
And there are more rate guides to follow. 🤫🤭✊🏻
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
You asked and here it is. 📖 For the very first time, the #EquityAudio Committee's Recommended Minimum Rates & Best Practice Guidelines For AUDIOBOOKS. You (and your agent) can use these to negotiate your fee. The journey towards fairer rates starts here. ✊🏻 #DemandBetter #UnionStrong
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
And don't forget about our mixer later. 🙌🏻 @equityuk.bsky.social #GameOn bsky.app/profile/equi...
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Proud to be present at @developconference.com Brighton! Come and have a chat with us about how we can *all* benefit from #UnionContractsInGamingNow ✊🏻🎮✊🏾
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Later today! Come join us. 🙌🏻🎮✊🏼
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Heading to the #DevelopConference in Brighton next week? 🎮 Join fellow games performers at The Lion & Lobster Pub BN1 2PS for an @equityuk.bsky.social Games Network Mixer on the upstairs terrace 4-8pm, WEDS 9TH JULY. You don’t need to be an Equity member to join, so pls spread the word. ✊🏻
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
PLEASE SIGN @equityuk.bsky.social's OPEN LETTER TO #PACT - DEMAND *BETTER* IN AI. Takes 30 secs and will send a strong message during our current negotiations with PACT. Thank you. 🙏🏻✊🏻 www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/op...
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Open Letter to PACT: We Demand Better in AI in Film & TV!
Equity is currently negotiating with Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT) to revise and improve the collective agreements across film and TV. PACT is the UK screen sector trade body for...
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
- Voting is open til Fri 4th July, but why not do it today. It takes 5 mins. 😊 - all candidate testimonials are on the ballot site and you can vote for as many candidates as that committee has places for. - if you didn't receive the email contact @equityuk.bsky.social at equity@uk-engage.org ✊🏻
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
🚨 VOTE NOW IN THE @equityuk.bsky.social COMMITTEE ELECTIONS As outgoing Audio Committee member Louise Barrett says, for the first time *all* committees are contested so it's really important to make your voice heard. Search your inbox for 'ukevote' to get your ballot link. #YOUareTheUnion
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Please find #Equity guidance here: www.equity.org.uk/advice-and-s... 🔥🔥
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Working in a heatwave, high temperatures and/or direct sunlight | Equity
Advice for working during a heatwave in theatres, studios and outdoor performance spaces.
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thinking of all our @equityuk.bsky.social audio artists working in unairconditioned soundbooths today or booths where the aircon can't be on during recording. 🙄 Thank you to all the studios that accommodate a heatwave and *shakes finger* at the ones that don't!
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
To make sure you're kept up to date with events like this and the latest from @equityuk.bsky.social in Games, make sure you're signed up to the Games Network: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...
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Sign up to Equity's Videogames network
Join Equity's Videogames network.
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
HOW WE WIN IN GAMES 🎮 A powerful, energising day with fellow gamechangers. From raising minimum rates to fighting for protections around AI & growing our collective strength, this was more than just a meeting, it was the beginning of a movement. #EquityGameOn #GamePerformanceMatters #UnionStrong ✊🏻
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Listen to #GayannePotter and @Equityuk.bsky.social's Gen Sec #PaulFleming talk about the case, and #ScotRail & @readspeaker.com's unethical use of AI and Gayanne's voice, with @rosatkins.bsky.social on #TheMediaShow here (23mins in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #StopAIStealingTheShow
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The Media Show - Reporting from the Hajj at Mecca, Katherine Maher from National Public Radio in America takes on President Trump's funding cuts - BBC Sounds
Reporting on the Hajj at Mecca, Katherina Maher from National Public Radio in America.
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Vote, vote, vote. Link in your inbox. And good luck, Comrades. ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
👀 @ScotRail @readspeaker.com 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
*cough*
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Essential advice for members: www.equity.org.uk/campaigns-po...
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Stop AI Stealing the Show - Protect Creators’ Rights | Equity
Join the fight to protect creators’ rights. Demand the government stops big tech companies from scraping your work for AI models without consent or pay. Take action now.
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER UNETHICAL AI EXPLOITATION EquityAudio calls on @readspeaker.com - who claim to "empower accessibility & inclusion" - and #ScotRail to reconsider selling and using Gayanne's voice without her consent. #StopAIStealingTheShow✊🏻 @equityuk.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
. @sagaftra.org GAMES STRIKE UPDATE! Vital reading for all performers and agents working in games. 🎮 www.equity.org.uk/advice-and-s... cc @equityuk.bsky.social
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Update on the SAG-AFTRA games strike | Equity
Equity recently met with representatives from SAG-AFTRA who updated us on their strike action, where they currently are in their fight, and how we can support them. Detailed information is outlined on...
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
#AUDIBLE TO ROLL OUT END TO END AI VOICE NARRATION ON THEIR AUDIOBOOK CONTENT. We call on Audible to engage with us over this decision and its repercussions. Read our statement below and PLEASE RT if you agree. 🙏🏻 #StopAIStealingTheShow @equityuk.bsky.social
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
LAST CHANCE TO STAND FOR COMMITTEE. The deadline is this Monday 28th at noon. We would love as many new & diverse voices as possible, so please consider making yours heard. All the info is here, but do just ask below or DM with any queries. www.equity.org.uk/about-us/how...
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Committee Elections | Equity
Nominations are now open for the Equity Committee Elections 2025. Find out more here about how to submit your nominations.
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David Menkin @davidmenkin.com · 11/04/2025
If you work in the Creative sector and have worries about AI's impacts on Intellectual Property and Copyright, please fill in this short survey/questionnaire ahead of an IMPORTANT Parliamentary debate. t.co/FtvtSYHnUQ Some background: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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http://bit.ly/parliamentarydebateAI
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES. 👏🏻 🎮 ✊🏻
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Equity @equityuk.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Equity members outside New Scotland Yard this morning demanding justice for Heklina and safety for all LGBTQ+ nightlife workers! 🏳️‍🌈 #JusticeForHeklina ✊
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Equity Audio Committee @equityaudio.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚨 YOUR UNION NEEDS YOU 🚨 Want to know more about standing for any of @equityuk.bsky.social's 11 committees? Come to our online Audio Committee Elections Open Meeting THIS THURSDAY 27th at 1930. Register for the meeting here: equity-org-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... All welcome. 🙌🏻
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Audio Committee Elections Open Meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Audio Committee Elections Open Meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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