Legal Eagle
Union useage in workplace disputes
Additional charges made by entertainer
Can employers refuse non-Equity?
Do producers have to use Equity contracts?
Union help with a non-union contract
Is it illegal to force someone to belong to a union?
How long can my agent hold my earnings?
What charges can an agent make?
Do I pay the agent or the act?
Can I deal with accredited agents only?
How can an agent stop their act being poached?
Do I have to register as an agent?
Can I chase my agent's clients for payment?
Is it legal to be represented by two agents?
Overdue payment from insolvent agent
Starting a children's casting agency
No work and retrospective upfront fee paid
What services should an agent provide?
Breach of contract by publicist.
Profiting from show transfers.
Tribute bands quality when members change
Childrens' licences/working on stage and TV
Employer contracts/refusal to pay owed wages
Employers cancelling contracts - can I sue?
Stage school students breaching contract
Safeguarding wages on 'deferred payment' contracts
Student extras - oral contract, payment troubles
Withdrawal from contract due to disability
Verbal contracts and new ownership
Verbal contracts and compensation
Drawing up a commissioning agreement
Likeness "release" forms at filmed castings
Intellectual property - game show ideas
Pictures - who owns portfolio?
'Passing off' - voices on radio
Lookalike agency - legal considerations
Biographies - breaching copyright
Extracts used without publisher's permission
Do choreographers hold copyright?
Can I use real letters in a play?
Co-author permissions for songs
Cease and Desist despite acknowledgement
Original recording royalties for compilations
Licensing for using extracts from other shows
Literary rights when previously made into feature films
Author's rights - maintaining them
Performance licences and school productions
Entertainment licences and Bank Holidays
Licences for foreign national children
Disused buildings for performance space
LEA child performer licence refusal
Child protection laws and licensing/permits for work experience
Is my act suitable for children?
Protection against juvenile crime
Redress against noisy school parties
Reviews: Can I sue an uninvited critic?
Reviews: Can I prove a critic takes backhanders?
Reviews: Quoting from articles
Reputation: Slanderous comments
Trial into television (defamation)
Is it defamatory to call someone a tout?
Can I be sued if I complain online about someone?
Do I need a visa and contract before I go?
Foreign entertainers working in the UK
Franchising a musical in another country
Liquidations and non-preferential creditors
How do I organise a profit share company?
Update on theatrical investments
Charities: director liabilities
Protecting your home against company bankruptcy
Incorporating charity status into existing companies
Redundancy pay - is it negotiable?
Court action against withdrawal of grant
Recovering unsolicited material
Becoming an entertainment lawyer
How does the IR35 affect actors/theatre companies?
Parental concern about touring theatre company
'Registration of caution' - will it affect funding?
Public liability insurance for amateurs
Misrepresentation of age at auditions
Sexual discrimination/exclusion of female members
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