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Since the new legislation has been enacted, do I have to change my management agreement? Are my old contracts void? Management agreements have been given a workover in the new ...

There has been a lot of interest and concern in Australia about the applicability and impact of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR), which came into force on ...

Are you an agent, manager or performer? Do you know what your rights and obligations are within the entertainment industry? If you are, you’re in luck. Over the next few ...

In the last of our Blogs on the Entertainment Industry Act, we will look at whether the location of the performer, the manager or agent, or the venue where the performance ...

Securing Success for your Startup Did you know that around 95% of startups in Australia fail before exit? There are many reasons for this high failure rate and in our ...

How to legally use social influencers when marketing Influencers are an increasingly popular and, when used correctly, effective marketing strategy for many startups. Startups may engage influencers directly to promote ...

How to (legally) use client testimonials on your website and social media Client testimonials can be an extremely effective marketing tool to give validation and credibility to your website or ...

If you were a talent agent or manager and you undertook one of the required services for a performer, you are now a “performer representative”.  In that post we mentioned ...

Welcome to the next installment of our dissemination of all your questions surrounding the Entertainment Law Act. In an earlier blog we looked at what it means to be a ...

There is a widespread belief in marketing circles that reposting someone else’s photos from Instagram or even taking them to use in a campaign for your startup is acceptable as ...

We’ve previously introduced you to some of the major changes implemented in the new Entertainment Industry Act that came into effect in March 2014. If you used to call yourself ...