An agent who supervises the employment of union artists and provides liaison for them with their employer.
What is Union stewards
100
A Person who copies music of parts of a musical score
What is Copyist
100
An association of professional persons with similar interests (sometimes used synonymously with trade union)
What is Guilds
100
An agreement that states that in an event in which workers are both union and non-union, they are all subject to the collective bargaining agreement in effect between the pertinent union and the employer.
What is Open shop
100
Codes (showcases)
What is Equity also permits limited talent “showcases,” called Codes, in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
200
Equity (union)
What is Actors’ Equity Association.
200
An individual or company engaged to perform a role or complete a task not serving in the role of an employee of the client.
What is
Independent contractors
200
Extended use
What is A prerecorded tape or film used for a period longer than the one initially paid for.
200
A television production performed live, with TV recording occurring at the same time for later editing prior to broadcast
What is Live on tape
300
In unions, the steward, who hires performers, supervises their working conditions, and confirms they are properly paid
What is Contractors
300
One who takes music written by someone else and writes or scores the music for the various instruments that play it
What is Orchestrators
300
Use of a recorded performance after an initial time period is over
What is Reuse
300
The act of moving heavy or bulky equipment, particularly musical instruments; the union scale reimbursement for the same
What is Cartage
300
Act of playing more than one instrument in a performance
What is Doubling
400
A company an artist sets up as a separate legal entity for legal and tax benefits. The company loans out the artist’s services and pays the artist as an employee.
What is Loan-out corporation
400
Distribution of programs (produced by a network or syndicator) that individual stations or other outlets transmit simultaneously or at times convenient to them
What is Syndication
400
Collective bargaining agreement (CBA)
What is A commercial agreement negotiated between the artist, management, and a union
400
A state law that makes a closed shop, where union membership is a condition of employment illegal
What is Right to work laws
400
An establishment that hires only members of a labor union or those who promise to join a union within a specified time
What is Union shop
500
Branch office or a national union or guild
What is Local
500
Union wage scale for tracking sessions
What is Tracking scale
500
A broadcast commercial announcement
What is Spots
500
Low budget often experimental professional theater, produced in New York venues but outside its TImes Square theater district
What is Off Broadway
500
A state law that makes a closed shop, where union membership is a condition of employment, illegal.