Contracts and Residuals with Tess Chappell and Miles Hunt

About this episode

The episode discusses performers' employment contracts, usage payments, and residuals with Equity’s National Industrial Officers Tess Chappell and Miles Hunt.

A chance to hear from Equity’s National Industrial Officers Tess Chappell and Miles Hunt on performers’ employment contracts, usage payments and residuals. This will be of particular interest for new members and a refresher for established members. The discussion will cover the following topics: • Contract basics, how to negotiate an employment contract before signing and how to use your contract during your employment. • Usage – upfront buyouts and the curse of in perpetuity. • Residuals – backend payments and where they come from; • Agreements – how usage and residuals work in film, TV and streaming; • MEAA negotiations and payments for performers; • Commercials and rollovers • The difficulty with streamers; and • International Perspective – SAG and other jurisdictions and Q and A

People in this episode

Guests: Tess Chappell, Miles Hunt

Topics covered

• employment contracts
• usage payments
• residuals
• negotiation
• film and TV agreements
• international perspective

Keywords

• contracts
• residuals
• usage payments
• negotiation
• film
• TV
• streaming
• MEAA
• SAG

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Equity, MEAA, SAG

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