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Usenet Posted 20 years ago
Screenwriting

Question about praciticing as a a literary agent in California

A friend of mine is considering becoming a literary agent for screenplays. Through the years he's made some good contacts with movie people in the course of his non-entertainment-related work. He splits his time between NY and LA.
I seem to remember reading on this newsgroup that agents must pay $10,000 to be licensed in the state of California. If someone is licensed in another state, can they can still make deals in California? Also, is there such a license fee in New York?
  

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Tell him to become a manager that way, he can bypass everything. -ADS.

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Tell him to become a manager that way, he can bypass everything.

-ADS.
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[nq:1]A friend of mine is considering becoming a literary agent for screenplays. Through the years he's made some good contacts ... another state, can they can still make deals in California? Also, is there such a license fee in New York?[/nq]
Tell him to come to Canada. The agents here are listless and greedy, only serving the purpose of waiting for the fish to land in the barrel before "fish
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Must be licensed in California.
Info here:
http://www.dir.ca.gov/databases/dlselr/Talag.html
Becoming a manager doesn't make it legal vis-a-vis the California Talent Agency Act. Submitting a spec script to a producer, prodco or studio is considered to be procuring employment, and if a manager
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