What's happening
This bill prohibits talent services from making false promises or advertisements about securing jobs, auditions, or agents for artists.
Why it matters
Protects aspiring artists from scams. by making it illegal for talent services to mislead them about job placements, auditions, or connections to agents, reducing financial and emotional exploitation in the entertainment industry.
Holds talent services accountable. for both spoken and written promises, including advertising and testimonials, ensuring that any claims about securing opportunities for artists must be truthful and not exaggerated.
Broadens the definition of covered services. to include not just acting and modeling but a wide range of artistic professions and related training or counseling services, increasing the law’s reach and relevance.
Provides legal recourse for victims. by explicitly defining deceptive practices and false advertising in this context, making it easier for artists to challenge and report abusive or fraudulent talent services.
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Who cares
Actors, musicians, models and other artists
The bill would prohibit talent services from claiming they will or may secure paid access to jobs, auditions, interviews, agents or managers for artists.
Fee-based talent training and career services
Providers of lessons, coaching, workshops, career counseling and audition or industry contact lists would face restrictions on oral and written claims about procuring opportunities for artists.
Talent-service advertisers
Written representations and advertisements could not include testimonials mentioning or implying success in obtaining jobs, auditions, interviews, agents or managers for artists.
Nonprofits, labor organizations and public educational institutions
These groups would be excluded from the bill’s definition of covered talent-service providers.
Headline styles
Ban Deceptive Talent Advertising
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
No co-sponsors yet.
History
- Referred to consumer affairs and protection
- Referred to consumer affairs and protection
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Stop Talent Service Scams
In Senate Committee · Consumer Protection · Sponsor Betty Little
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6668
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 15, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to deceptive acts and practices, and false advertising by talent services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 350-f-2 to read as follows:
§ 350-f-2. Talent services. 1. Definitions. As used in this section:
(a) "Artist" means an actor or actress rendering services on the legitimate stage and in the production of motion pictures, radio artist, musical artist, musical organization, director of legitimate stage, motion picture or radio productions, musical director, writer, cinematographer, composer, lyricist, arranger, model, or other artist or person rendering professional services in motion picture, theatrical, radio, television and other entertainment enterprises.
(b) "Fee" means anything of value, including any money or other valuable consideration charged, collected, received, paid or promised for any service or act rendered or to be rendered by a talent service.
(c) "Person" means any individual, company, society, association, corporation, manager, contractor, subcontractor, partnership, bureau, agency, service, office, or the agent or employee thereof; but shall not include a public education institution, a nonprofit organization, a labor organization, a public institution or a person licensed pursuant to article eleven of this chapter.
(d) "Talent service" means any person who, for a fee from or on behalf of an artist, provides, or offers to provide an artist, directly or by referral to another person, with lessons, coaching, seminars, workshops or similar training as an artist; career counseling, vocational guidance, aptitude testing or career evaluation as an artist; or a list of auditions, employment opportunities, talent agents or talent managers.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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2. Prohibited acts. It shall be considered a deceptive act or practice pursuant to section three hundred forty-nine of this article and false advertising pursuant to section three hundred fifty of this article for any talent service to make any oral or written representation that the talent service will or may, directly or indirectly for a fee, procure or attempt to procure for an artist an employment opportunity or engagement, an audition or job interview, or a talent agent or manager. Written representations and advertisements of talent services shall not include testimonials that mention or imply any success in procuring for an artist any such employment opportunity or engagement, audition or job interview, or talent agent or manager.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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