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Actors Access Latest Target In Class Action Lawsuit Over Its Pay-To-Play Service
A California based law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against Casting Networks for its controversial pay-to-play model
The company’s “bait and switch” tiered subscription-based service violates the state’s unfair business practice and false advertising laws, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. As a reminder for union jobs, performers must have a no-cost method to submit themselves for a commercial casting.” Now that self-tapes are the industry standard, actors are having to purchase more bandwidth to upload their submissions — a trend that audition coaches like the one who runs the Instagram account Put Me On Self Tape have railed against online. As for additional plaintiffs, Clarkson said they “put out feelers for potential class representatives for this case and within a matter of hours we had almost a hundred actors reach out to us wanting to be part of this suit.”
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