Entertainment & Sports
Dec. 20, 2013
A generation of incorrect Talent Agencies Act rulings
An incorrect holding has been the basis of five decades of determinations where personal managers - and now attorneys - lose the benefit of their labors.
Rick Siegel
Rick is a former personal manager who is often engaged as an expert witness on the history, construction and application of the Talent Agencies Act.
In a recent Talent Agencies Act determination, the labor commissioner voided the contractual rights of a transactional attorney for not having a talent agency license or involving a licensed talent agent to help renegotiate a sportscaster's talent deals. Solis v. Blancarte, TAC-27089 (Sept. 30, 2013). "Entertainment lawyers are not above the law," seems to be the message at first glance.
An examination of the arguments being forwarded by the National Conference of Personal...
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