Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Show Business Interns

Let’s say you want to get into the entertainment business. You’re young. You’re willing to do grunt work. You want to learn. You get hired as an intern - maybe you’re paid, maybe you work for free - but you end up doing the work of a regular employee. What does your boss owe you?

By Madeleine Brand • Sep 10, 2014 • 1 min read

Let’s say you want to get into the entertainment business. You’re young. You’re willing to do grunt work. You want to learn. You get hired as an intern - maybe you’re paid, maybe you work for free - but you end up doing the work of a regular employee. What does your boss owe you? That’s the question at the heart of a class action lawsuit filed by a former intern against CBS and David Letterman’s production company. It’s the latest in a wave of intern lawsuits against the entertainment industry.

Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Andrew Walsh
Too Beautiful to Live
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Matt Holzman
Producer, 'The Document'
Jonathan Handel
contributing writer at Puck News and an entertainment labor lawyer

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Show Business Interns

Let’s say you want to get into the entertainment business. You’re young. You’re willing to do grunt work. You want to learn. You get hired as an intern - maybe you’re paid, maybe you work for free - but you end up doing the work of a regular employee. What does your boss owe you?

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Show Business Interns

Let’s say you want to get into the entertainment business. You’re young. You’re willing to do grunt work. You want to learn. You get hired as an intern - maybe you’re paid, maybe you work for free - but you end up doing the work of a regular employee. What does your boss owe you?

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