The Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) Digital Chapter has introduced its new Standard Production Agreement specifically tailored to companies which produce content digitally.
The contract fills an industry void, related Matt Miller, president/CEO of the AICP. “For a long time, our members, the agencies and clients have lacked an agreement that applied to work produced digitally, and were attempting to retrofit contracts, or piece together something,” said Miller. “With this new resource, there is now a document which provides sound legal framework for this type of production.”
Ed Ulbrich, president of the AICP Digital Chapter and president, Commercials, at Digital Domain, added, “The purpose behind AICP Digital is to examine and address issues affecting companies producing content digitally, and this is one of many such business tools you will see from us.”
The AICP Digital Board and its Standards & Practices Committee created the document, along with AICP legal counsel Kane Kessler, to address issues such as: producer’s tools, distribution channels and deliverables, cancellation, payment terms, and many other areas. While these issues are not specific only to digital production, there are different considerations which need to be addressed when producing content digitally.
To view the full Standard Production Agreement, click here.
AICP Digital was formed in 2009, and represents over 60 AICP member companies who work in a variety of digital disciplines, including visual effects, interactive, motion graphics, animation, mobile (including applications), design, and installations.
Maggie Smith, Star of Stage, Film and “Downton Abbey,” Dies At 89
Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in "Downton Abbey" and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89. Smith's sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, said in a statement that Smith died early Friday in a London hospital. "She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother," they said in a statement issued through publicist Clair Dobbs. Smith was frequently rated the preeminent British female performer of a generation that included Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench, with a clutch of Academy Award nominations and a shelf full of acting trophies. She remained in demand even in her later years, despite her lament that "when you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything." Smith drily summarized her later roles as "a gallery of grotesques," including Professor McGonagall. Asked why she took the role, she quipped: "Harry Potter is my pension." Richard Eyre, who directed Smith in a television production of "Suddenly Last Summer," said she was "intellectually the smartest actress I've ever worked with. You have to get up very, very early in the morning to outwit Maggie Smith." "Jean Brodie," in which she played a dangerously charismatic Edinburgh schoolteacher, brought her the Academy Award for best actress, and the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) as well in 1969. Smith added a supporting actress Oscar for "California Suite" in 1978, Golden Globes for "California Suite" and "Room with a View," and BAFTAs for lead actress in "A Private Function" in 1984, "A Room with a View" in... Read More