Since Tasini has said his bigger goal with this suit is to get it enshrined in law that writers must be paid for the value they create, such an outcome would be, for him, a worst-case scenario.

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His worst-case scenario assumes that 90% of the CMO's mortgages default and it recoups only half their value, resulting in a net 45% loss.

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