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Originally Posted by Mutt
contracts are meaningless to girls - can't force a model to work for you who no longer wants to and you sure as hell aren't going to get a judge to stop her from working for somebody else. which makes taking models to shows a risky venture, i don't see much of an upside and i definitely have seen the downside.
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I disagree. Contracts and Non-competes are two different things entirely.
If you have a girl under contract, you will certainly get a judge to uphold that contract if it is valid. While it is true that dealing with models is sometimes difficult in this regard, it would be even easier to get a judge to stop the other company from using that model if the contract is valid.
I point out "if the contract is valid" because I have seen some pretty pathetic contracts in the last 11 years. Many of them would not hold up in court because they were not written by a lawyer and have provisions that either would not hold up in court, or legally COULD NOT hold up in court.
As for non-competes, they are difficult to uphold unless they are narrowly defined in scope and time frame. I have seen non-competes that last for years, or indefinite, and these will never hold up.
Moral of the story, work with a lawyer and protect yourself.