The lawsuit claims Musero's idea was packaged for a bigger client and reminds the court about the ongoing war between the major agencies and the WGA.
A writer suing CAA and claiming the agency gave his idea for a drama series about the U.S. Attorney General to a bigger client without paying him is defending his lawsuit — and he's attacking the practice of packaging in the process., along with agents Andrew Miller and Leah Yerushalaim. He claims his agents failed to properly shop his pilot calledand later redeveloped it with Jerry Bruckheimer and writer client Sascha Penn without his knowledge and permission and sold it to CBS.
"Packaging fees often include large back-end profit participation, and can create a durable asset that pays in perpetuity even if a client leaves the show or the agency," writes Musero's attorney Stephen Doniger. "They thus put agents’ interests at odds with the interests of their packaged clients, and create a strong disincentive to push clients that are not packaged since packaged deals are so much more lucrative.
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