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Originally Posted by SpicyM
Beside that, a court has to rule a contract void - and that has not happened yet, has it?
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I believe, from what I've read, that's the hurdle they need to overcome. Once they can prove they were deceived (GDP lying and misrepresenting the contract) then they can void the contract. Once it's voided, they then can say due to their misrepresentation, they've suffered from it.
Every model release pretty much says that the producer can redistribute it via any medium they want - film, dvd, print, internet, broadcast etc. Now GDP telling the girls they weren't going to do that, well, you can't do that. Hence the plaintiffs lawyer having 22 girls in the complaint all showing GDP patently lied.
And you have to remember, this is a civil trial. This is not "beyond a reasonable doubt," this is "could this have possibly happened." The burden of proof is much less.
We've always been upfront with the models and told them do not do this if you have a problem with someone seeing it because they can and most likely will see this. We record them reading the contract. We record them agreeing to everything so they can't come back and claim otherwise. And it actually saved our asses a few years ago. A girl we shot back in 2007 claimed she was drunk and didn't sign a contract. Her attorney contacted us and we sent over the video along with the model release.. he replied "thank you gentleman, have a nice day." And that was the end of that.