truthsleuth
This is the release agreement that all potential contestants of American Idol have to sign. This is not even to get on the show. This has to be signed before you can even attend a preliminary virtual audition for one of the producers.
Here are the concerning points in summary:
- You have to give the producer the unrestricted right to alter, edit, cut, rearrange, DUB, or revise the recordings of you in any manner or form.
- You have to waive your MORAL RIGHTS in respects to the recordings.
- You give them the right to use your recording for ANY commercial or non-commercial purposes.
- The producer and third parties are allowed to make up fictional information about you and you have to give up the right to sue over defamation and libel.
- You also give up the right to sue the producer and basically any of the people involved even the slightest bit in the production over defamation, libel, slander, PERSONAL INJURY, etc.
- You have to say that you are aware that you might learn some stuff later or suffer claims that had you known about prior you wouldn’t have agreed to the contract and will assume that risk anyways. And you voluntarily waive laws that protect you from that.
- You also have to swear confidentiality regarding people involved in production and the business and creative affairs of those as well.
- You have to swear confidentiality even about this release form.
- And if you have any conflicts regarding this contract (but who could have any qualms about this?! 🤦♀️) you agree to settle it (not in court) but by final, binding CONFIDENTIAL arbitration from a company they chose. The result of the arbitration, be it in your favor, will only be of a monetary amount and will not dissolve the contract or provide injunctive relief.
- If you violate the contract, the damage is too irreparable for any monetary relief, only injunctive relief (refrains a party from doing certain acts or requires a party to act in a certain way) or an equivalent will do. This will be done in a court or competent jurisdiction.
Literally, what the heck?! Who would sign this? I knew Hollywood contracts had to be some kind of messed up. I mean just look at Hollywood, but this is the kind of contract that your ordinary every day bloke searching the internet for an audition can find?!
It’s called a “release” form for a reason. You release or more popularly sell your soul to the company in exchange for possible material gains.
Now when/if I watch the show again, all I will be able to think about is how many rights these contestants gave away for their shot at fame. Some willing to risk it all for their dream. Others too naive to read the fine print. And I’m sure there are still some few sensible critical thinkers who are weeded out from auditioning by reading this contract because they certainly don’t want any of those in the industry.
Nice catch.
Contracts we can’t move within. The devils work.
You got me shocked by indirect exposure of the number of signatories (how many seasons of American Idol have there been to date?! how many participants, indeed?!), their absolute resignation to this document and damaging hunger for fame!
The moment I would be reading about giving someone ‘unrestricted right to alter’, I would be thinking: ‘are you looking for a slave who will perform your artistic vision for you? what about my artistic vision?’ The moment I would be asked to waive my ‘moral rights’, I would stop reading and go home.
Could this contract be sued for its villainous nature?
And there’s no way out of it. It’s only dissolvable if the Producer agrees to it. If the contestant has a problem with the contract after signing it, they just get some money to keep them quiet. They can’t even bring it to court because they signed that right away too. Complete control all from one signature.
I’ve been trying to research if the contract could be sued, but I don’t think so because it doesn’t force anyone to do anything illegal. Also, the contestant agreed that their disputes with it be settled by arbitration from a company chosen by the production company. There must be some loophole though. I refuse to believe that someone couldn’t fight it if they got real creative.
I knew a guy who got accepted on American idol, but walked off because he was convinced that Katy Perry wasn’t human. Said it was his dream his whole life, and at that moment he would rather everyone be upset with him and call him crazy than to stay there. He actually found me on instagram when I used to post tinfoil hat memes. Great guy, amazing singer! He’s doing well locally.
You know something I cannot figure out why KP is always so over everything. Weird.
Good for him.
MK ultra
Horrifying. But I guarantee almost none of those people are reading this. They probably get them while standing in line salivating over fame, and even if they did read them, let’s be honest about the fact that almost nobody is intelligent or educated enough to know what any of it means. It’s shocking how people can’t even understand basic words any more. High society going to “good schools” are hardly any better than the commoner’s they look down on…stupidity is a REAL pandemic.
Thank you for exposing this contract from the “Devil.”
It reminds me of a scene where Johnny signs the contract in blood with the demon Mephistopheles, to cure his father of cancer in the 2007 movie, “Ghost Rider.”
Also, it reminds me of my employment contract with a Southern California aerospace company three and a half decades ago (except for the “moral” rights verbiage). They can terminate your employment for no reason at all. Then, some 300,000 people left California for employment in other states. California has been woke for a very long time.
So glad my local bar does not handle it this way
when I climb on to a stool and start clearing my throat..