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By Stan Soocher
January 26, 2011

AGENCY AGREEMENTS/POST-TERM COMMISSIONS

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that artists were precluded from raising as affirmative defenses that the plaintiff booking agency's firing of two of its key persons who handled the artists' account also terminated the artists' agreements with the agency ' and thus the artists' obligations to pay post-term commissions to the agency. Columbia Artists Management LLC (CAMI) v. Alvarez, 08 Civ. 11254(LBS). CAMI sought post-term commissions from opera singers Marcelo Alvarez, Richard Margison and Ramon Vargas. The artists had left CAMI in February 2005, after CAMI reps Bruce Zemsky and Alan Green were fired and formed their own company. CAMI sued the artists to obtain post-term commissions for engagements secured through CAMI before, but performed after, February 2005.

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