Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-09 (Wednesday)

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 21:32:36 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:47:14 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

10 Apr 2025 08:18:16 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>:

And that's not even close to the most shocking story they told in the
documentary.  There were so many shady things happened on that show.
Giving them contracts to sign, but telling them they had to sing almost

Sing for their supper. :)  

immediately with no time to let an agent review it first.  The terms of
the contracts had the actors working for almost nothing while signing
away their likeness.  Keep in mind, Power Rangers is a mutlibillion
dollar franchise.  They were putting the actors faces on products,
selling the products, and not giving the actors any of the money. 

Though the problem is how many other actors did they have lined up if
someone demanded to get paid for the use of their likeness. Which is
always a problem if there aren't legal protections in place.

How is that a problem? We have a word for performing labor and not being
compensated. Don't contractually engage in slavery. Let someone else do
it. Famously, Disney isn't allowed to use Giselle (Amy Adams) from
Enchanted (2007) in displays of Disney princesses as the actress refused
to sell rights to her likeness. It wasn't conditional on casting.

It's a problem if you are wanting to pay your bills so you need this job.

You seem to be ignoring the main point that performing work for no
compensation doesn't get the bills paid.

They were getting paid, just not for the use of their faces. They were
still getting paid to make the content.

They were paid for a production week (I assume). They were not paid for
exploiting their likenesses, which would have been additional income to
help pay bills in future as merchandise sold. That's something entirely
different, nothing to do with acting.

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