Ecosystem Analysis

Political

• Mayor Gainey has prioritized gender and race equity across health, income, employment, and education. It would promote equitable payment and hiring of CLO.

• Governor Tom Wolf ‘s commitment to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by January 31, 2022, which affects the payment to CLO employees.

• While the impact of Covid 19 continues, many federal pandemic-relief programs and other pandemic-related grants will go away next year. It will raise the pressure on ticket sales and subscriptions.

Economic

• High inflation increases production costs and discourages patronage. It is also more difficult to retain workers and fill in vacant jobs.

• The total budgets of arts and culture organizations decreased by 26% from fiscal year 2019 to 2021. Earned revenue across all participating organizations decreased by 46%.

• The arts and culture sector is down by about 8,400 jobs 81% of organizations reported that they were working at either a reduced or modified capacity.

Legal

• Copyrights: choreography, and musical works are expressly protected by the Copyright Act.

• Script copyrights:

  • Scripts are categorized into original, pre-existing pieces still protected by copyright, or pre-existing pieces in the public domain. Depending on each categories, different steps should be taken to produce the piece legally:

  • For original works, playwrights usually share in the subsidiary rights of the new work

  • For productions of preexisting copyrighted works, the producer must acquire a license to produce the show.

  • Works in the public domain are not protected by copyright, so no rights need to be acquired for these shows.

• IATSE Union Obligation:

  • including fair wages, working conditions, and no strikes agreement.

• COST Union Obligation:

  • Including six tiers with different salary minimums, working conditions, and requirements for recording and digital distributions.

• Pittsburgh CLO's Policy of Equal Employment Opportunity

  • Affords equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, religion or belief, age, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or family or parental status and to conform to all applicable laws and regulations to that regard.