Name that contract clause
This clause lets a team or studio end a deal if the talent's behavior embarrasses the brand.
What is a morality clause?
Salary arbitration hearings, where lawyers argue a player's value in front of a neutral arbitrator.
What is sports?
In 2025, this pop star announced she had bought back the masters of her first six albums.
Who is Taylor Swift?
NIL
What is name, image, and likeness?
I negotiate a player's contract and endorsement deals, and I take a percentage.
What is a sports agent?
This clause lets a player refuse to be traded to another team.
What is a no-trade clause?
The Coogan Law, which sets aside part of a child performer's earnings.
What is entertainment?
A 2025 court settlement in this case allowed colleges to share revenue directly with athletes for the first time.
What is House v. NCAA?
CBA
What is a collective bargaining agreement?
I work in this studio department that negotiates talent deals and secures rights.
What is business affairs?
This clause keeps a musician from recording for any other label while under contract.
What is an exclusivity clause?
The Seven-Year Rule, which came from Olivia de Havilland's 1944 lawsuit against Warner Bros.
What is entertainment?
In 2024, the DOJ sued this company, arguing it illegally monopolizes live events and ticketing.
What is Live-Nation Ticketmaster?
WBA
What is the Writers Guild of America?
I negotiate the collective bargaining agreement on behalf of NFL players
What is the NFLPA (NFL Players Association)?
This clause gives a team or label the right, but not the obligation, to extend a contract for another year or album.
What is an option clause?
Flood v. Kuhn (1972), a challenge to the "reserve clause" that binds players to one team
What is sports (more specifically baseball)?
In 2024, this state passed the ELVIS Act to protect musicians' voices from AI imitation.
What is Tennessee?
DMCA (the 1998 law behind online takedown notices)
What is the Digital Millennium Copywrite Act?
I work in the league's office, where I enforce the salary cap and the personal conduct policy
What is league in-house counsel?
Under this clause, a studio must pay an actor the full fee even if it decides not to use them in the film.
What is a pay-or-play clause?
O'Bannon v. NCAA, a case that began when a former player saw his likeness in a video game.
What is sports?
Beginning with the 2025-2026 season, this league's roughly $76 billion media deal moved games to Amazon and NBC and left TNT out.
What is the NBA?
AMPTP (the group that bargained against the WGA and SAG-AFTRA during the 2023 strikes)
What is the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers?
I guide an actor's career, but California law says I generally can't find them jobs because I'm not a licensed agent.
What is a talent manager?