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Hey, showbiz folks: Check your contract before your next tweet

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    Last Updated: December 23, 2009

    This article was written by Andrew Wallenstein and Matthew Belloni.

    “Hollywood is coming down with the Twitter jitters.

    There’s a growing number of studio deals with new language aimed specifically at curbing usage of social-media outlets by actors, execs and other creatives. The goal: plugging leaks of disparaging or confidential information about productions via the likes of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

    A recent talent contract from Disney includes a new clause forbidding confidentiality breaches via “interactive media such as Facebook, Twitter, or any other interactive social network or personal blog.”

    Over at DreamWorks, a writer’s deal cautions not to jump the gun on studio press releases via “a social networking site, blog or other Internet-type site.” An agent spotted a talent deal with a stricture that forbids bashing any element of a production with social media.”
    Read this article from THR Esq.

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