Common Contracts

AMBA Proposals

February 13th, 2019

• Filed
  February 13th, 2019

Writers Guild of America, West, Inc. and Writers Guild of America, East, Inc. (collectively, “Guild”) make the following proposals for a new basic agreement to replace the Artists’ Manager Basic Agreement of 1976 (“AMBA”).1 The proposals address the relationship between talent agents, both individually and through talent agencies (“Agency”), and any writer (“Client”) represented by the Guild in the fields of work covered by the Writers Guild of America Theatrical and Television Basic Agreement (“MBA”), as periodically renegotiated. The works written by writers under the MBA are referred to in these proposals collectively as “motion pictures.”