Strippers paying the stage fee you mention is illegal in many states in the
USA because those women are employees and the law generally requires that an
employer pay en employee when he/she is at work. So its not really like an
artist exhibiting or even a band performing.
Even the band playing isn't like the artist in a gallery. The band will
almost certainly make money selling merchandise like CDs, an artist can't do
that, all he can sell is his piece of artwork and in the average
multi-artist exhibit relatively few sell anything. It's not a good deal for
artists, its exploitative and it would stop if enough artists realized that
art is a BUSINESS and that as the producers of the art they have as much
right to an income from it as a factory worker has when he produces product
that someone else sells for a profit.
--
Chris Crawford
Photography & Graphic Design
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com
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On 5/25/07 12:02 AM, "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Yes, it has been known - to gain exposure. If the band expected to
> pass around the hat, sell CD's and T shirts and get their pay by
> 'selling product' then it would be an analogous situation.
> Watching a movie set in a strip club (The Ice Harvest) the other
> night - the girls were required to pay 'stage rent'. Same principle.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 25/05/2007, at 2:38 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
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>> Can you imagine a
>> nightclub owner telling a local band that they have to pay to perform?
>
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