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The End Of Packaging Fees: The WGA’s Historic Campaign To Reshape Talent Agency Business Takes Full Effect Today – Q&A
30.06.2022 - 20:51 / deadline.com
The WGA’s historic reshaping of the talent agency business will take full effect at the end of business today, after which agency packaging fees will no longer be permitted under the guild’s franchise agreement.
“The agency campaign was founded on the simple truth that agents are our fiduciaries,” said WGA West president Meredith Stiehm, who was one of the named plaintiffs in the guild’s long-running anti-trust lawsuit against the “Big 3” talent agencies. “The interests and priorities of agencies and their writer clients must be aligned. Our campaign had three main goals: end the collection of packaging fees, put a halt to the conflict of interest of agency-owned studios, and for the agencies to share information, which the WGA uses to fight late pay and free work. Thanks to the resolve and unity of the membership, we’ve achieved those goals. Today, as we mark the beginning of the end of packaging fees, we move forward with our agency partners to improve writers’ compensation and conditions.”
The end of packaging fees on new projects marks a seismic shift in the landscape of TV production deals. In a review of the 2016-17 television season, the WGA found that 87% of the more than 300 series produced that year were packaged by the agencies, and that “packaging is dominated by WME and CAA,” which together accounted for 79% of all packaged series.
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Packaging – what the guild calls “small ‘p’ packaging” – will still be allowed, meaning that an agency can still put together deals that bring its clients – writers, actors, directors, producers and others – together in a project. But instead of receiving packaging fees directly from the studios, as had been the case for decades, the
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