Entertainment & Sports
Apr. 25, 2019
An agent’s fiduciary duties to clients
When an agency seeks a packaging fee, its interests are in conflict with those of the writer.
Thomas H. Vidal
Partner
Pryor Cashman LLP
Email: tvidal@pryorcashman.com
Pepperdine Univ SOL; Malibu CA
The opinions expressed here are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the firm or its clients.
The stories so compellingly told through film and television simply would not exist without first being birthed on the page. As vital as words are to stories, one might imagine that the artists who craft them would be aggressively protected by the talent agents who undertake their representation. But they are not.
Talent agents and the agencies that employ them have done a grave disservice to the writers they represent. One glaring c...
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