ArtsHacker won’t likely be up and running until November/December but that isn’t stopping Joe Patti who posted a wonderfully informative overview of written agreements by demonstrating that not everything presented in written form is set in stone. Patti’s article is an excellent example of the sort of nuts and bolts content you can expect at ArtsHacker and I can wholeheartedly endorse his recommendation for springing for a full version of Adobe Acrobat although pushing to work in MS Word or Google Doc formats makes life much easier for editing toward a final agreement.
Having said that, sending along a PDF file with editing conveniently disabled is an old trick to passively coerce the other party into thinking that proposed terms are firm. But as Patti points out, there’s a good bit of gray inside an otherwise black and white document and the trick is learning to realize where that ink begins to bleed.
The only thing more fulfilling than successfully filling a demand is doing it alongside a group of enormously talented colleagues and friends. To that…
ArtsHacker won’t likely be up and running until November/December but that isn’t stopping Joe Patti who posted a wonderfully informative overview of written agreements by demonstrating that not everything presented in written form is set in stone. Patti’s article is an excellent example of the sort of nuts and bolts content you can expect at ArtsHacker and I can wholeheartedly endorse his recommendation for springing for a full version of Adobe Acrobat although pushing to work in MS Word or Google Doc formats makes life much easier for editing toward a final agreement.
