Tag: I guess the agents just don’t understand their former client writers at all. Who’d a thunk?

by Larry Brody

After a couple of weeks of relative quiet, the WGA-ATV Battle of the Writing & Writers’ Agent Stars got pretty loud last week.

Over all, it was the same old, same old about fiduciary duty and how much power the Writers Guild of America legally has when it comes to client-agent relationships, but with one crucial difference.

It’s election season for the WGA West, with Board of Directors seats and Guild officers chairs up for grabs. As I write this I see three different groups  vying for power. read article

by Larry Brody

It was been pretty damn quiet on both the Western and Eastern Fronts last week.

No new lawsuits. No authorized spokesmen spouting their side’s line.

But that doesn’t mean the Writers Guild and the Association of Talent Agents and their members, both individual and corporate, have made up. No, no, no, no. read article

by Larry Brody

More lawsuits! More recriminations!

Looks like things are heating up in what seems to be turning into a fight to the finish between the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Talent Agents. (What does it say about the situation that I almost typed “Association of Travel Agents instead?)

Here’s the most recent communique from the Guild: read article

by Larry Brody

It’s been a hell of a week in the WGA-ATA War. Here are just some of the latest developments:

From the WGAW (of which I am a member, in case you’re wondering where my soul – not merely my “sympathies” – lies):

June 28, 2019 read article

by Larry Brody

To me, the most interesting development in a week loaded with what I think of as Pseudo (or Non-) Developments is that we now have reached the stage where showbiz news sources are playing the “The writers haven’t won so they must be losing” card.

To put it another way, what I’m seeing is a lot of coverage of imaginary “thoughts behind what isn’t happening” presented as news and, still, a total refusal to accept the simple fact that the Writers Guild of America, as a labor union made up of real live women and men who make their livings writing TV and films, has every right to set up standards of business conduct for companies that want to be the business representatives of its members, and inherent in those standards is a belief that, “If you want to be our agents, you shouldn’t also be making yourselves our employers.”

ITPTTPS – It’s The Packaging That’s the Problem, Stupid. read article