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Originally Posted by DeanCapture
Sorry Mutt but that's just silly. Yes she was paid for the shoot but she has every right to know who the content is for and how it will be used. It's tacky & unprofessional IMO to hire a girl and not tell her exactly how and where the content will be utilized.
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I think Mutt is not only correct in a certain respect but he didn't make his point strongly enough. I can't speak for everyone but most independent producers who aren't employed full-time or who aren't exclusively contracted by any one production company pay models out of our own pockets and then sell or license the content we shoot as we see fit.
I personally always make sure that I get a video disclaimer with the models I hire where they say on camera that not only are they of sound mind, sober, of legal age of majority, tell their legal name & date of birth, that they have a clean test and saw their partner's health test but also very importantly that they understand that the content I shoot could be sold, licensed and re-sold in every technological medium that will ever be created without geographic restriction in perpetuity to any number of entities and that there will be no way to make it go away and that such activity may subject them to scorn from people they know seeing the content at any time in the future.
That way everyone is on the same page and it avoids a lot of issues with models saying they thought the material would only be on a certain web site, or kept only behind member areas or not available on DVD or not available on the internet or not broadcast on TV or not available in the U.S., or it would go away after a certain period of time and a million of potential objections.