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If you are a performer, do you provide the venue with a written contract that specifies the details of your performance so that you can enforce your right to payment? Do you utilize the legal protection of trademarks and copyrights for your work?

As a performer, have you considered the benefits of investing in creating a business entity for yourself such as a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) or an S Corporation?

​If you are performing regularly and getting paid (hopefully), invest in your future. Consider minimizing your exposure to personal liability for an accident.

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If you are a venue, do you use written contracts with your performers that would allow you to recover financial loss from a performer due to a no-show or other unanticipated problem?

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As a venue in this day and age, have you thought about the way your backstage area and dressing rooms are set up to maximize safety for higher profile artists, or even to prevent uninvited guests and patrons from getting into trouble in less supervised areas of your building?

If you are performer, have you considered your personal liability if an audience member or venue patron was injured by tripping over your cables connecting you and your portable mixer, or hit with a stage-light stand that falls over, or a speaker that gets bumped off the top of a main? Do you have protection from personal liability due to an accident at the venue during your performance, or are you just assuming the venue is going to pay any damages?

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