Current Legislation

Qualified Performing Artist Tax Code

The IRS Tax Code provides that a “qualified performing artist” can deduct employee business expenses as an adjustment to income rather than a miscellaneous itemized deduction. However, in order to qualify for this deduction, an artist must have adjusted gross income of . . .

The theft of copyrighted motion pictures, also known as piracy, resulting in total industry losses estimated at $3 billion annually. The negative impact on the economy is considerable and threatens the livelihood of the tens of thousands of actors and others employed by the entertainment industry. . . .

Screen Actors Guild sponsored SB 771 because it clarifies that the property right to use a deceased personality’s name, voice, signature, photograph or likeness in a commercial product is freely descendible by means of trust or any other testamentary instrument executed before or after January 1, 1985. This bill makes . . .