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| Subject: Nice racket you got here, be a shame if anything happened to it: Hollywood Upended as Unions Tell Writers to Fire Agents Sat Apr 13, 2019 4:39 am | |
| Fire your agents.
That was the instruction the Writers Guild of America gave to its 13,000 members on Friday, after talks between the Hollywood writers and their agents broke down hours before a midnight deadline.
The sudden end to negotiations upended a way of doing business that had been in place for more than four decades.
The fight had been brewing for a year. The Writers Guild of America’s Los Angeles and New York branches accused the agents of enriching themselves at their clients’ expense and demanded that they agree to a new code of conduct.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/business/media/hollywood-writers-agents-fire.html |
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