Client Group

A client group is an organization party made up of clients that are contracted as a group, such as a band or writing team.

These organization parties may or may not be actual companies, but they are almost always represented by UTA as clients. The rules can be summarized as:

1. The client group is a party of type organization.
2. The client group party is related to the client person parties via the IS_MEMBER_OF relationship.
3. The IS_MEMBER_OF relationship has a subType that describes the nature of the relationship, such as "Band" or "Writing Team."
4. The client group party will have a role of Client.
5. Every person party that is a member of the client group must also have a role of Client.

For example, the Beatles are contracted as an entity, so we need an organization party with a client role:

As stated above, when we contract the group as a client, then we by definition treat the individual band members as clients as well. We may not list them on rosters as individuals but because agents talk to people, not organizations, we'll need some "person" parties that are also clients. We can represent this as follows:

In order to connect the members to the band, we use the IS_MEMBER_OF relationship, and indicate the band relationship as a subType of the IS_MEMBER_OF relationship:

Keep in mind that each relationship in the diagram above has metadata about its lifetime, as expressed in the standard relationship properties. This allows us to track not only the current members of the client group, but former members as well.

By combining these relationship assignments, we can answer quite a few questions about the Beatles and its members, as well as the status of their connection to each other and to UTA. See the example queries in the IS_MEMBER_OF relationship documentation for more information.