Comment by herge
12 years ago
This is why you should always have your contracts reviewed by a lawyer. See Mike Monteiro's Fuck You, Pay Me: http://vimeo.com/22053820
12 years ago
This is why you should always have your contracts reviewed by a lawyer. See Mike Monteiro's Fuck You, Pay Me: http://vimeo.com/22053820
True, but if he can prove he created them, he has a copyright on the work just by creating it.
could have used http://www.proofofexistence.com/
Nice one, thanks!
I was thinking the same thing. Always, always, always have a contract in place. I really feel for this guy, but the way this went down, he provided them with his best work on the hope they would then reasonably compensate him.
A contract, negotiated up-front, might have prevented the agency from taking advantage of him.
A contract, negotiated up front, is something assholes like this will never do. This guy had no leverage. His options were walk away early, walk away late, or get screwed.
So the lawyers can now suck the money out?
Even if he blew most of the money he was making on lawyers, what then?
Now he puts everything he's ever owned into suing the company?
That's one of my favorites, and immediately what came to mind when I started reading this story.