Before you sign with an adult talent agent they may ask you or require that you also agree to do things like let them create an official website or perform live shows for a service they work with. This is actually against the law and can invalidate your contract with them.
According to California Labor Code section 1703.4
(6) Refer an artist to a person who charges the artist a fee for any service or any product in which the talent service, its owners, directors, officers, agents, or employees have a direct or indirect financial interest, unless the fee and the financial interest are conspicuously disclosed in a separate writing provided to the artist to keep prior to his or her execution of the contract with the talent service.
(7) Require an artist, as a condition for using a talent service or for obtaining any additional benefit or preferential treatment from the talent service, to pay a fee to any other talent service in which the talent service, its owners, directors, officers, agents, or employees have a direct or indirect financial interest.
(8) Accept any compensation or other consideration for referring an artist to any person charging the artist a fee.According to California labor Code 1700.40
(b) No talent agency may refer an artist to any person, firm, or corporation in which the talent agency has a direct or indirect financial interest for other services to be rendered to the artist, including, but not limited to, photography, audition tapes, demonstration reels or similar materials, business management, personal management, coaching, dramatic school, casting or talent brochures, agency-client directories, or other printing.
(c) No talent agency may accept any referral fee or similar compensation from any person, association, or corporation providing services of any type expressly set forth in subdivision (b) to an artist under contract with the talent agency.
What does that mean to you? It means you don't have to agree to any offer for them to create an official website for you. You are free to negotiate your own deal for a website and usually at far more money for you.
Your agent wants you to do a website deal because they get a percentage from the company as a referral bonus.
You don't HAVE to perform in live cam shows for them either. They want you to do this because they make a ton of money off of you in commissions. For every penny you make doing a live cam show for them, they make a percentage.
Screw that. Sign up to cam on your own, make way more money doing it on your own!
If they ask you to do it, remind them it's in violation of California Labor Code section 1703.4 - parts 6, 7 and 8 -- as well as California labor code 1700.40 b and c.
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