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Designers

Director & Choreographer Contracts

Payment & Schedule

Intellectual Property

Right of First Refusal

Electronic Rights (rules for taping & broadcast)

Billing, Comp Tickets

Share of Subsidiary Income

Pension & Health

Contributions of an Artistic DirectorErnie Nolan- AD for Emerald City Theatre in Chicago

January 2016- fired with no warning; company “going in a different direction”

Press release already written and new AD already hired

No red flags in annual reviews

10-year progression from guest to artistic associate to associate AD to AD

Illinois is at-will state

Contract makes answerable directly to Executive Director

What is appropriate recognition/ownership of programs he started?

Spokane, WA

Music Director fired for using mentioning employer when posting on

swinger websites and when posting nude photos on Craig’s List

After fired, started blog campaign against Artistic Director

AD sued for defamation and for harming the business

Lost suit- said site was personal not professional

Then she was fired for being a bully and difficult to work for- despite

financially rescuing the company

Is it Protected?

Can you be inspired, or is it always theft?

If YouTube is illegal, what about the Lincoln Center archive?

Is it actually good to publish all of those stage directions?

Going to the Library

Fight Directors

If an SDC member, can use those contracts

Otherwise negotiating independently with theatre

Equipment

Actor Safety

Training/Appointing Fight Captain

Designers

Intellectual Property

Deliverables & Dates

Transportation & Housing

Construction Guarantees

Supplies

Assistants

Ownership

Is This Okay?

Liability & Expertise

Responsibility when people get hurt

Who makes decisions about set/props

Employee conduct on and off the job

Professional TD

Technicians & Construction

Determination of “expertise”

IATSE

Rigging Certifications

When do local building codes apply

What do other unions specify

What happens when the audience is “onstage”

Bishop v. Texas A&M University

Guest director & fight choreographer/prop master

Used a “real” knife for a production of Dracula

Actor got stabbed

Sued school- Guest Director & Designer, Faculty Advisor

At issue- independent contractors or is the school responsible? Who is

charged with safety?

Murder at the Met (1980) Orchestra member murdered by stagehand during intermission

Stemmed from musician slapping him for indecent comment in an elevator

Should Met be liable? Happened during work but not as a result of work

activities?

Musician’s husband filed Workers Comp claim- Met fought because not “work”

What is an employer’s full responsibility to an employee?

The Simpsons- AFM Got clearance/owned creative material to take from show to ride

Did not ask for permission for theme song recording

…no added compensation "shall be payable for the reuse of any portion of the

music sound track of a motion picture in the following circumstances: (a) When

used for promotional, trailer, news or review purposes…”