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After a personal management agreement expires, the manager is often paid decreasing "post-term" commissions for monies earned from the artist's projects completed and/or released, and from contracts fully or substantially negotiated, during the term of the management agreement. Without the decreased commission, an artist would be in the position of simultaneously paying full commissions to both a prior manager and to a new manager.
A recent judicial decision in a dispute between a management company and r&b artist KEM involved in part whether discussions about extending the term of years between the parties and increasing the manager's commission were binding, even though post-term commissions weren't discussed.
First, a look back at two court decisions on post-term management-commissions disputes.
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