It's amazing how insane Hollywood types try to control anything. A friend wanted to show his comics to someone and the guy handed him a contract that demanded the rights to everything and anything made in the next ten years.
Same friend met a production company that treated him like family until he saw the contract and realized they would have taken everything from him. There are entertainment lawyers who specialize in Hollywood for a reason. It has been stealing from others for decades.
Until stuff like YouTube, the only way to be seen was to sign those insane contracts. Now that it's not, the same Hollywood types are going broke and trying to use stuff like Mr Top to stay in power.
The more stories you hear about how Hollywood is, the more you understand why all these Hollywood stars think everyone is such a terrible human being who would kill you and rape your corpse if it made them a penny richer.
Because that's the sort of person they're around everyday, so that's how they assume everyone is.
Yeah exactly. I won't fault Dave for this because a "choice" being given like that isn't a choice at all. Its just telling you that if you want a career in the industry, then you sell them your soul and likeness and then you might get lucky enough to blow up into mega stardom to be able to negotiate your way out.
Because its not like you can just say no, and try again elsewhere or renegotiate. These companies will not only shut you out for even daring to speak against them, they will collude together to block you from being in the industry at all. Comedy is especially well known for being an incestuous pit of "anger one of us anger all of us."
Dave still signed it, so he holds a chunk of the responsibility regardless. But I don't think the fact that you can just sign things like that with no restrictions (like time or monetary upper limits) should be the norm either.
You go to work for some company, get paid a salary to create a product, the leave later.
That's selling your labor, once you leave that can't just keep claiming you work there and plaster your face all over the building because people liked you more than them.
Almost like we as people recognize there are limits to what businesses can do with contracts, but only apply it sometimes and other times just say "its what every industry does, so clearly its fair and we must abide by it!"
This isn't a call to action, its simply musing that contracts are given this deified power by people that they are unbreakable and unquestionable and we must simply accept them as the way things must be, when they are often just another tool corporations use to screw us over.
Yeah, I heard stories like that from friends and have read contracts ever since. They really pressure you to take it, and have no problems with tearing your name down to the mud to get what they want. When he talked about how they said he was on drugs and had a mental problem after he walked away, I recognized the story pretty well.
Every time a famous person has their contract up for renewal, tons of dirt pops up about them. Chapelle admits he shouldn't have signed the contract. Now he's using his fame to undo that contract. That is something a few people can actually do, and he's being very honest about it.
It's a deal with the devil, and I don't even mean that rhetorically.
Heck, most of the time the contract is so long and filled with barely comprehensible legalese that even if you try to read it you aren't safe.
They are designed from the top down to trick you and make sure any and all consequences that may arise fall back on you, so they deserve no benefit of the doubt.
It's amazing how insane Hollywood types try to control anything. A friend wanted to show his comics to someone and the guy handed him a contract that demanded the rights to everything and anything made in the next ten years.
Same friend met a production company that treated him like family until he saw the contract and realized they would have taken everything from him. There are entertainment lawyers who specialize in Hollywood for a reason. It has been stealing from others for decades.
Until stuff like YouTube, the only way to be seen was to sign those insane contracts. Now that it's not, the same Hollywood types are going broke and trying to use stuff like Mr Top to stay in power.
The more stories you hear about how Hollywood is, the more you understand why all these Hollywood stars think everyone is such a terrible human being who would kill you and rape your corpse if it made them a penny richer.
Because that's the sort of person they're around everyday, so that's how they assume everyone is.
Yeah, most Democrats are the type of businessman they complain about and don't see the irony.
Yeah exactly. I won't fault Dave for this because a "choice" being given like that isn't a choice at all. Its just telling you that if you want a career in the industry, then you sell them your soul and likeness and then you might get lucky enough to blow up into mega stardom to be able to negotiate your way out.
Because its not like you can just say no, and try again elsewhere or renegotiate. These companies will not only shut you out for even daring to speak against them, they will collude together to block you from being in the industry at all. Comedy is especially well known for being an incestuous pit of "anger one of us anger all of us."
Dave still signed it, so he holds a chunk of the responsibility regardless. But I don't think the fact that you can just sign things like that with no restrictions (like time or monetary upper limits) should be the norm either.
That's selling your labor, once you leave that can't just keep claiming you work there and plaster your face all over the building because people liked you more than them.
Almost like we as people recognize there are limits to what businesses can do with contracts, but only apply it sometimes and other times just say "its what every industry does, so clearly its fair and we must abide by it!"
This isn't a call to action, its simply musing that contracts are given this deified power by people that they are unbreakable and unquestionable and we must simply accept them as the way things must be, when they are often just another tool corporations use to screw us over.
Yeah, I heard stories like that from friends and have read contracts ever since. They really pressure you to take it, and have no problems with tearing your name down to the mud to get what they want. When he talked about how they said he was on drugs and had a mental problem after he walked away, I recognized the story pretty well.
Every time a famous person has their contract up for renewal, tons of dirt pops up about them. Chapelle admits he shouldn't have signed the contract. Now he's using his fame to undo that contract. That is something a few people can actually do, and he's being very honest about it.
It's a deal with the devil, and I don't even mean that rhetorically.
Heck, most of the time the contract is so long and filled with barely comprehensible legalese that even if you try to read it you aren't safe.
They are designed from the top down to trick you and make sure any and all consequences that may arise fall back on you, so they deserve no benefit of the doubt.