Summary: <p>You sign contracts every day. Do you read them? Do you have to read them? What makes a contract. Learn with us from Professor Martin Edwards from the University of MS School of Law. <a href="https://law.olemiss.edu/faculty-directory/martin-edwards/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://law.olemiss.edu/faculty-directory/martin-edwards/</a></p><br><p>The Band Van Halen notoriously had a clause in their contract <a href="https://www.insider.com/van-halen-brown-m-ms-contract-2016-9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">forbidding brown M&M’s.</a></p><p>Insurance policies are contracts, but most of us rarely read them. What’s hidden in the fine print? <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/contest-fine-print-contract-win-georgia-donelan-andrews-a8814311.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/contest-fine-print-contract-win-georgia-donelan-andrews-a8814311.html</a></p><br><p>We may think that contracts are a recent thing – but history scholars are Contract History Scholars Are Aware of a 4,300-Year-Old Written Purchase/Sale Agreement from 2300 BCE. So if you think you don’t need a written contract – folks have known for a while now that written contracts are useful.</p><p><a href="https://www.contractsafe.com/blog/six-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-history-of-contracts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.contractsafe.com/blog/six-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-history-of-contracts</a></p><br><p>If you’re a contracts fan AND a movie buff, you’ll want to watch these movies with contacts at the heart of their plot: Shrek Forever After, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Disney The Little Mermaid, and Willy Wonda and the Chocolate Factory.</p><p><a href="https://blog.axdraft.com/contract-management/6-iconic-legal-contracts-in-movies/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blog.axdraft.com/contract-management/6-iconic-legal-contracts-in-movies/</a></p><br><p>Samuel L. Jackson - he has a clause that allows him to golf twice a week during movie shoots.</p><p>Queen Latifah has included an anti-death clause in all her contracts; her quote: “If I die, I can’t be in the sequel,” she explained earlier this year.</p><p>Julianna Margulies wouldn’t agree to star in The Good Wife drama unless her contract stated that she was allowed to wear a wig.</p><p>Know your worth! <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/08/star-contract-clauses" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/08/star-contract-clauses</a></p><br><p><br></p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
