The Golden Rules for Booking Live Entertainment For Your Event
Having worked as a professional magician and mind reader for the past sixteen years, I have seen hundreds if not thousands of venues all over the world, from Boston, where I am based, to Singapore, where I work for a few weeks once per year, and many cities and countries in between. A similarity that crosses all borders is the client's consistent lack of knowledge when booking live entertainment. This is true for that of a variety type.
Parformance Clauses in Entertaimend Contracts
Producing and editing a masterwork of recorded music is a specialized art form. But so is the entertainment lawyer's act of drafting clauses, contracts, and contractual language generally. How might the art of the entertainment attorney's legal drawing a clause or agreement affect the musician, composer, songwriter, producer, or other artists as a practical matter? Many artists think they will be "home free" just as soon as they are furnished a draft proposed record contract to sign from the label's entertainment attorney and then toss the proposed agreement over to their entertainment lawyer for what they hope will be a rubber-stamp review on all clauses. They are wrong. And those of you who have ever received a label's "first form" proposed contract are chuckling right about now.
The Need For An Entertainment Lawyer In Film Production
Does the film producer need a film lawyer or entertainment attorney for professional motion picture practice? An entertainment lawyer's own bias and my stacking of the question notwithstanding, which might naturally indicate a "yes" answer 100% of the time - the forthright answer is, "it depends." Several motion picture producers are themselves film lawyers, entertainment attorneys, or other types of lawyers, and so, often can take care of themselves.
But the filmed motion picture producers to worry about are the ones who act as entertainment lawyers - but without a license or entertainment attorney legal experience to back it up. Filmmaking and motion picture practice comprise an industry wherein these days, unfortunately, "bluff" and "bluster" sometimes serve as substitutes for actual knowledge and experience. But "bluffed" documents and motion picture production procedures will never escape the trained eye of entertainment attorneys working for the studios, the distributors, the banks, or the errors-and-omissions (E&O) insurance carriers. For this reason alone, I suppose, the job function of film production counsel and entertainment lawyer is still secure.
The Psychology of Entertainment
On the private and public forms of entertainment and the psychological mechanisms in entertainment Entertainment has many dimensions. It could be personal/private or more general and public forms of entertainment. When we play with our mates, that is a unique form of entertainment, and when we sit and watch a movie on the screen, that is a more general form of entertainment as we are sharing the experience with many others. There are some differences in our perception of private and public forms of entertainment as personal enjoyment will always be based on personal experiences, our worldview and will be determined by personal interactions.
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