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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Mar. 6, 2008

Back in Commission

Focus Column - By Richard E. Posell - California's entertainment industry could be changed by a recent ruling allowing managers to have a chance to claim commissions when they could not in the past.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Richard E. Posell
This article appears on Page 7.

      When Rosa Blasi refused to pay commissions to her manager, Marathon Entertainment, she started a dispute that changed the slope of the playing pitch in California's entertainment industry. On Jan. 28, 2008, in the case of Marathon Entertainment Inc. v. Blasi, 2008 DJDAR 1398, the California Supreme Court changed a rule that most lawyers representing ta...

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