Agents and = Managers Agents and managers in the music business generally forming artists. Except in the cose of composers and Iyriciss who » stage, seven, of television, and who may have agents, songwzivers recording ars or singer/songuriters generally fel no need for: On the other hand, songwriters usually publisher cow company) whose function is to promote and. case of show and film music, the ars is more likely to use am THE ROLES OF AGENTS AND MANAGE! ‘The term personel represeneatioe is used 10 encompass both af agers, but the two play quite differ finds or agencies have numerous cliens in various entetaiament Bel ‘fai to represent them, sometimes with offices in che leading ‘CAA (hich he cofounded) to work for Disney in 1997 Disney to form Arise Management Group in 1998, expanding role in “packaging” talent with corporate sponsors 332 tours, advertising camp: v sapaigns, television shows, and o of this tend, The Firm—which had already brokered oo sand supervising the arses accounsants and attomeys ccing the design and maintenance of the artists Website with the artists they x : represent. ¥¢ artists expense; their job is to han-‘Kaala Lumpur, and Paris and represents violinist Itzhale ‘Kiri Te Kanawa. Some concert agents also act as an emplé ‘2 community concert touring series, in which case commissi THE STANDARD CONTRACT 14 major record label or label with national disuribution, with le che artists simply trying to put food on:Generally, managers are seimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses ine Debalf of the artist, such as long-distan cals, foes, po otal expenses during a single month wi ‘Mose managers seek a broad power 0 endorse checks payable to the artis, sight of approval Tn most cases, fa member ofan artist group leaves, to the manager, whether the departing member continues as another group. A group ars should make sure thar a departing bbe bound to che manager for longer chan the term of the bers join & agement contract as the existing ‘The manager’ ability to assign a manag to assignments to an entity in which the o other hand, an artise who enjoys being the stellar arxaction zation may be dissatisfied with being a small fish in abig pont developed close personal relations with an individual repr moved on to another agency or firm or formed his or her disgrantled unless they can follow theis representative to th ‘understandable because the manager-artst relationship is by navure close. into an arrangement with a third party forthe services of an artist seby compensation is paid deci to the agent, under terms not dis- dito the ardst, with the intent to provide additional compensation to ly representing the artist without the artist} authorization ing monies belonging to different artists GULATION OF AGENTS AND MANAGERS though this is eacely what many managers do,