'Black Swan' Interns Dance to Victory Two interns who worked on the film “Black Swan” are considered to be Fox Searchlight employees, a Federal Judge recently ruled. A third intern can represent a class, Courthouse New reported. In October 2011, Eric Glatt and Alexander Footman, interns on the film “Black Swan” from...
June 13, 2013 - ABC News
Black Swan Event: The Beginning of the End of Unpaid Internships Two years ago, they didn’t stand a chance. Two days ago, when I heard they had won, I dug the e-mail out of my inbox: “I’ve been glad to read about your upcoming book, Intern Nation. I recently worked as one of approximately 20 illegally unpaid interns for the Oscar-nominated film Black Swan.” The e-mail was from Eric Glatt, a 41-year-old New Yorker who admitted that he fell “outside the norm ...
June 13, 2013 - The Curious Capitalist
The 'Black Swan' Intern Ruling Could Change Unpaid Internships Forever The case of the unpaid American intern just got upended — again, and maybe for good: Just a month after one judge dismissed the class-action suit filed by free New York City media interns at Hearst Magazines, another has now granted the Hollywood coffee-fetchers who worked on Black Swan a precedent-setting win, ruling that the two production interns "worked as paid employees" and that Fox ...
June 12, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News