It will affect overseas productions, which are already rife with bad deferral contracts which are specifically-designed to make sure that producers get paid, directors maybe get paid, but everyone else gets told "sorry, there was no net profit from which to derive money to pay your deferred fees".

Which is %$*%*++% since the producers (sometimes the directors) have written themselves into the budget as "a cost".

The only thing that sometimes helps creative people against such parasitic behavior are the positions of IATSE and the WGA. But the fact that writers, attempting to be "auteurs" in film or "publishers" in graphic novels, often try to use deferral contracts to screw illustrators, animators, actors and storyboard artists (who fall under the SAG and IATSE bailiwicks) in order to not pay them, but get their skills to further the career of the parasites-masquerading-as-writers, undermines any position the WGA claims in situations such as the strike of 2007.

And makes the WGA a bunch of hypocrites.