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Judge Urges WGA & WME To Resolve Dispute: “Come On Folks. Get Together. Get It Done.”

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Attorneys for WME and the WGA appeared virtually in federal court Friday for a hearing on WME’s request for a preliminary injunction that would end the guild’s boycott of the agency until their antitrust case can go to trial next August.

WME is the last major agency not to have signed the guilds’ franchise agreement, which phases out packaging fees and reduces ownership interests in production companies to just 20%.

CAA signed the agreement on Wednesday.During the 70-minute hearing, U.S. District Court Judge André Birotte Jr repeatedly urged WME and the union to settle their dispute before it goes to trial. “Come on folks.

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