(c) (1) A contract for the exclusive personal services of a music talent shall not contain a term that includes option periods that extend more than nine months after the initial commercial release of the applicable music product.
(2) If a music talent’s option has not been formally exercised within the time period specified in paragraph (1), a music talent, at any time, may terminate their personal services agreement by sending notice to the contracting party.
(d) If a music talent willingly renegotiates an existing recording contract with a record company, a new seven year period, as described in subdivision (b), shall be deemed to commence on the execution date of such renegotiated recording contract, if the renegotiated contract meets the following criteria:
(1) The renegotiated contract provides for a separate royalty account for the music product delivered by the music talent during the term of the renegotiated contract.
(2) The renegotiated contract, both financial and otherwise, provides a material improvement from the existing recording contract and the renegotiated terms are consistent with, or better than, the terms applicable to artists of similar commercial success or industry market value.
(3) The renegotiated contract does not add more than one additional album to the delivery obligation of the existing contract before the renegotiation.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a contract for the personal or professional services of an employee shall not prohibit an employee from working for
multiple employers, except as follows:
(1) (A) The contract may prohibit working for a different employer where the employment would pose a direct conflict for the existing employer or materially interfere with the employee’s performance obligations to the existing employer.
(B) Employment as an artist in connection with the production of motion pictures, irrespective of medium, radio programs, television, podcasts, and other audiovisual entertainment content, shall not be a direct conflict unless the employer can show that the employment would pose a direct scheduling conflict or the employer can show that it would materially interfere with the employer’s business.
(2) The contract may require the employee to disclose to the existing employer any additional employment, provided the existing
employer shall not take any adverse action against the employee based solely on the employee having taken additional employment.
(3) The contract may include protections for trade secrets and confidential business information and nothing in this section shall supersede any rights the employer may have under any other section with respect thereto.
(f) No part of this section may be waived in an individual contract negotiation, a collective bargaining agreement, or other agreement.
(g) This section shall apply to existing and future recording agreements and employment contracts.
(h) Any provision in a contract that would deprive an employee or recording artist of the protections of this section shall be void.