About three weeks ago, we wrote about the fact that the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Talent Agents hadn’t revisited the contractual relationship between writers and agents in over forty years.
Of special concern to the writers (that’s “us”) were the rules that allowed agencies (that would be “them”) to take packaging fees based on the overall budget of a new series instead of the usual ten percent of the salaries of their clients involved in the creation and sale of the series. This allowed the agencies to make far more money in any deal they negotiated than any of the creative partners.