Important Message from the MEAA

Paul wrote (and a few other suggested):
> I believe that if you get amateur rights you MUST put a variant of this on your publicity.

IANAL but I think you'll find this is purely contractual. There's nothing in law that says if you're doing an amateur or community theatre production, you must label your publicity accordingly.

However, I believe some agents make this a contractual requirement. I.e. We'll grant you amateur performance rights on the condition that you include this notice on your publicity material. If you don't, you're in breach of the contract.

Incidentally, I made a close examination of a poster for the recent production of Cats and could find no references anywhere to its amateur status, in spite of the insistence of some correspondents. 

Regards
Grant

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Director, actor and administrator of this website