Agreement · Sports & Entertainment Law
Artist management agreement (manager and performer), with NSW Entertainment Industry Act requirements
An artist management agreement between a performer and a manager: services, commission and post-term commission, trust handling of the artist's money, accounting, key person and termination, with the NSW managerial agreement, cooling-off and capped-fee rules built in.
- Kind
- Agreement. A contract between two or more parties.
- Where it applies
- New South Wales, Australia
- AI use
- Yellow AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at
- 18 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 18 October 2026 against the 4 authorities it cites, for New South Wales and Australia.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a musician, actor or other performer appoints a personal manager for career and business management. In NSW the Entertainment Industry Act 2013 applies to performer representatives and fixes trust, fee and cooling-off rules. For a booking agent only, or for a record, publishing or production deal, use a different precedent.
How AI may be used
AI may assemble the agreement and commission schedule from the agreed terms; a lawyer checks the fee structure against the capped amount and managerial agreement rules, the cooling-off steps and the post-term commission before the performer signs.
AI may
- Fill the parties, term, territory, commission rates and excluded income from the agreed term sheet
- Produce a worked commission example from figures the lawyer supplies, for the explanatory schedule
- Check the draft for every defined term and cross-reference and list inconsistencies
AI must not
- Must not decide whether the manager is a class 1 or class 2 performer representative, or whether the fees exceed the capped amount
- Must not state the prescribed percentage or the prescribed information from memory; they must come from the current regulation
- Must not prepare the cooling-off notice, waiver or prescribed information in any form other than the one approved under the Act
- Must not advise the performer on whether the deal is fair; the performer needs independent advice
The lawyer checks
- Current Entertainment Industry Regulation checked for the capped percentage, the prescribed information and the approved forms
- If commission exceeds the capped amount, the agreement is in writing, fixes the fees, contains the additional fee acknowledgement and the s 13 information was given first
- Trust account details and the payment timetable for the performer's money comply with s 6 and the regulation
- Post-term commission, key person and termination rights have been explained to the performer, who has been told to get independent advice
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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