Hollywood screenwriters and studio executives returned to the bargaining table today for their seventh round of face-to-face contract talks since July as strike rhetoric from both sides intensified, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The last negotiating session Friday ended after just 45 minutes with the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers agreeing only that little or no progress had been made.

The two camps remain sharply divided over the decades-old formula by which TV and film writers earn “residual” payments when their work goes beyond an initial broadcast or theatrical release and into secondary markets such as reruns and DVDs.

The union is demanding greater compensation for writers whose work is distributed through the Internet and other digital platforms. The studios want to overhaul the system to withhold residuals of any kind until after production, development, distribution and marketing costs are recouped.

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