Contracts are private written agreements between two parties. Susan writes, reads, and negotiates contracts involved in creative works, such as movies, screenplays, art commissions, song rights, writing agreements, and much more.
Some contracts are subject to Guild Agreements, such as standard contracts approved by the Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild, Directors Guild, etc.
Licensed Talent Agents in California and Illinois must have their contracts approved by or meeting the requirements of the State Labor bureau.
Many contracts are rather hidden. For example, when you sign up to use a service online, you might click something that is considered a contract. It is so important to know what you are agreeing to before you agree to it. Often it is considered that if you use a service, you are agreeing to the contract.
A contract for a website, social media, or online service is often called the Terms of Service (TOS) or Terms of Service and Use (TOSU). Susan writes these. She works hard to make these easy to understand. She writes them in clear, plain language. It can be more difficult to write something simply than it would be to load it down with complex wording.
The contract is the written pathway to what will happen in a creative project.
Susan has written Terms of Service. She has also written contracts that give a writer or producer the Life Story Rights of a person who is interesting. She has also written Option Contracts that give a producer the right to buy the Film Rights on a story for an agreed-upon amount of time.
All these contracts should be written so they can be clearly understood by the parties. That's a fine art and not easy to accomplish.
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