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Originally Posted by pornlaw
It's not the split that's important - it's getting paid. And what rights you are giving up. My best advice - do not give them VOD and your 2257 docs. You lose all control of your content and may not even know where it's being sold.
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It's really hard to control your content once they have everything needed to sell it. Not to mention, when companies like Manwin waltz into a studio and give them a nice check for X amount of titles, it's very easy yours accidentally (or intentionally) end up in the mix and given away for free on all of the Manwin tubes. That actually happened to me and I had a heart attack. Luckily, everyone on all sides were cool about it and we got it all offline, but it still happened.
Scenes can also get mixed into comp deals and international rights deals that you can get left out of and so on. As soon as they have all the docs, it is more or less theirs and there is no telling where it will end up in the long run. Even when dealing with honest guys, when they have a library of 10s of 1000s of scenes, or even just a few 1000, accidents and mix-ups do happen.