DGA settles levies lawsuit

April 14, 2008 The DGA said Monday that it has settled a class-action lawsuit filed by nonmembers who challenged the way the guild collected and disbursed foreign levies. "The DGA is proud of its efforts to obtain and ensure each director's right to a share of foreign levies, and that we have distributed tens of millions of dollars of levies to so many directors in our industry," DGA assistant executive director Morgan Rumpf said. The plaintiffs' attorney, Neville Johnson, said the settlement brings "accountability and transparency" to the program and gives nonmembers full disclosure of how the foreign levies are distributed.

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