Cal. LAB § 1702.1
This is the official text of Cal. LAB § 1702.1, part of California’s Labor Code — governs wages, workplace safety, and employee rights.
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Official statutory text
(a) “Advance-fee talent representation service” means a person who provides or offers to provide, or advertises or represents itself as providing, an artist, directly or by referral to another person, with one or more of the following services described below, provided that the person charges or receives a fee from or on behalf of an artist for photographs, Internet Web sites, or other reproductions or other promotional materials as an artist; lessons, coaching, seminars, workshops, or similar training for an artist; or for one or more of the following services:
(1) Procuring or attempting to procure an employment opportunity or an engagement as an artist.
(2) Procuring or attempting to procure an audition for an artist.
(3) Managing or directing the development of an artist’s career.
(4) Procuring or attempting to procure a talent agent or talent manager, including an associate, representative, or designee of a talent agent or talent manager.
(b) “Advance-fee talent representation service” also means a person who charges or receives a fee from, or on behalf of, an artist for any product or service required for the artist to obtain, from or through the person, any of the services described in paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive, of subdivision (a).
(1) Procuring or attempting to procure an employment opportunity or an engagement as an artist.
(2) Procuring or attempting to procure an audition for an artist.
(3) Managing or directing the development of an artist’s career.
(4) Procuring or attempting to procure a talent agent or talent manager, including an associate, representative, or designee of a talent agent or talent manager.
(b) “Advance-fee talent representation service” also means a person who charges or receives a fee from, or on behalf of, an artist for any product or service required for the artist to obtain, from or through the person, any of the services described in paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive, of subdivision (a).
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