Abrams Artists Agency has signed the WGA’s Code of Conduct
’s Code of Conduct, making it the third mid-tier agency to break ranks with the Association of Talent Agents and sign the code since the guild ordered all of its members seven months ago to fire their agents who refused to sign it. The code bans packaging fees after one year and prohibits agency affiliations with related production entities.
member companies that have broken ranks with the ATA – Buchwald and Kaplan Stahler, which signed in July – and Pantheon, a small agency that signed months before talks broke off with the ATA on June 7.Abrams Artists Agency Those negotiated changes, he said, deal with the disclosure of client contracts and invoices; confidentiality and data security; agency audits, and diversity. “I was concerned,” he said, “that the requirement to send writers’ contracts and invoices to the WGA puts the agency in a place where we have legal responsibility by the contract to do it, but if a client says they don’t want us to, then we have a conflict with our fiduciary responsibility to the client.
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