Writers Guild of America West president David Goodman has accepted an offer from UTA co-president Jay Sures to resume talks between the guild and the Association of Talent Agents over a new franchise agreement.
An exact date has not been set, though Sures suggested that talks resume next week. The new talks come six weeks after the WGA and Ata broke off talks despite extending the deadline of the previous agreement between them to reach a deal on new rules regarding the practice of packaging and production companies affiliated with major agencies like Creative Artists Agency and William Morris Endeavor. The WGA considers both to be a conflict of interest and a violation of agents’ fiduciary duty to their clients.
After talks broke off, thousands of WGA members terminated their representation with agencies in response to their refusal to agree to the Guild’s newly approved Code of Conduct, which...
An exact date has not been set, though Sures suggested that talks resume next week. The new talks come six weeks after the WGA and Ata broke off talks despite extending the deadline of the previous agreement between them to reach a deal on new rules regarding the practice of packaging and production companies affiliated with major agencies like Creative Artists Agency and William Morris Endeavor. The WGA considers both to be a conflict of interest and a violation of agents’ fiduciary duty to their clients.
After talks broke off, thousands of WGA members terminated their representation with agencies in response to their refusal to agree to the Guild’s newly approved Code of Conduct, which...
- 5/23/2019
- by Ross A. Lincoln and Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
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