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Washington DC [US]: After a long wait of 148 days the Hollywood writers’ strike is officially over. According to Variety, a US-based media outlet, following a tentative agreement on a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the board of the WGA West and council of the WGA East decided unanimously on Tuesday to lift the strike order as of 12:01 a.m. PT on Wednesday. This means that writers can return to work as early as Wednesday, even before the final ratification vote. The ratification vote will take place from October 2 to October 9. The WGA will have member meetings on both coasts this week, in person and through Zoom, to review the details of the contract, as per Variety. The vote to cancel the strike order came after the WGA's negotiating committee, the WGA West board, and the WGA East council all voted unanimously to send the contract to members for ratification. The WGA West will have a member meeting at the Hollywood Palladium on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. PT. The WGA East will meet the same night at 6 p.m. ET at Manhattan Centre. Zoom meetings will be held at 5 p.m. PT on Thursday and 11 a.m. PT on Friday, reported Variety. WGA also released the whole 94-page contract as well as a summary of the new terms. The agreement includes wage raises, a new requirement for minimum personnel numbers in TV writers rooms, improved payment terms for screenwriters, and safeguards against the use of artificial intelligence in the writing process. According to the guild's agreement, as reported by Variety: - AI can’t write or rewrite literary material, and AI-generated material will not be considered source material under the MBA, meaning that AI-generated material can’t be used to undermine a writer’s credit ...