Open Access<i>Gigs – Jazz and the cabaret laws in New York City</i> by Paul Chevigny
Author(s) -
Patricia A. Edwards
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
entertainment and sports law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1748-944X
DOI - 10.16997/eslj.84
Subject(s) - legislation , entertainment , law , jazz , legislature , advertising , political science , business , art , visual arts
On 10th July 2003, the Licensing Act 2003 received Royal Assent in the United Kingdom, delivering New Labour’s promised overhaul of licensing. However, contrary to hopes and expectations, this legislation reversed one of the most important exceptions to public entertainment licenses for live performances: the ‘two in a bar rule’. It permitted unlicensed performances by no more than two musicians in liquor licensed venues. The UK’s new legislation introduces, in effect, a ‘none in a bar rule’, meaning that most venues will require entertainment licenses to provide any form of live music. This was and remains a very controversial move, in advance of which the legislature would have done well to consider the development of equivalent legislation in New York.