Hollywood Talent Agencies Claim The Writers Guild Of America Case Challenging Packaging Fees Was Leveled By Courts, But Was It?

www.forbes.com: Just over a year ago, the Writer’s Guild of America filed a lawsuit against Hollywood’s major talent agencies seeking to establish that the “packaging fees” favored by the agencies, many of which now have their own production arms, are a violation of state and federal law, and that the agencies had violated not only fiduciary duty and unfair competition laws, but federal law that prohibits “delivery and receipt, respectively, of things of value paid by employers and persons acting in the interest of employers to representatives of employees.” (see 29 U.S.C. § 186).