{"id":1124,"date":"2008-02-08T08:56:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T16:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/02\/agent_or_managerthe_distinctio\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T08:56:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T16:56:43","slug":"agent_or_managerthe_distinctio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/agent_or_managerthe_distinctio.php","title":{"rendered":"Agent or manager&#8230;the distinction blurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the arts and entertainment world, there&#8217;s a distinction that&#8217;s often misunderstood as semantic, when it&#8217;s actually driven by law: the difference between a manager and an agent. In film, touring performing arts, theater, publishing, and other realms of creative expression, both agents and managers work to advance their clients&#8217; work. The difference is that agents can procure work for their clients and require a license to do so. Managers can promote their clients, but cannot make the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the distinction relates to the perils and pitfalls of &#8221;agency,&#8221; where one person is doing business on behalf of another. There are reams of research on the challenges that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agency_theory\">principal-agent relationship<\/a> can foster &#8212; among them an imbalance of expertise and knowledge between the principal and the agent (the realtor often knows more about the value of a house and the terms of a contract, but may not always have a monetary incentive to share that knowledge), and the challenge of knowing exactly whose interests an agent represents between the buyer and seller.<\/p>\n<p>In arts and entertainment, the distinction is commonly known and frequently blurred. And that distinction was the subject of a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/features\/columns\/e3i2b58004ff7cfb262bfbb4e895874a614\">California Supreme Court case<\/a>. If you are an artist, or contract with artists, it would be worth understanding the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the arts and entertainment world, there&#8217;s a distinction that&#8217;s often misunderstood as semantic, when it&#8217;s actually driven by law: the difference between a manager and an agent. In film, touring performing arts, theater, publishing, and other realms of creative expression, both agents and managers work to advance their clients&#8217; work. The difference is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}