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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
You are absolutely incorrect. A contract is a contract, and what binds you to what you sign. It is in fact even your problem if you sign a contract in a language you do not understand. If not, what the fuck is the point of a contract to begin with? Contracts are meant to read. If it very clearly fucking says that your videos may be posted on the internet then your videos may be posted on the internet. If you don't understand what you are signing then you don't sign it and have a lawyer review it. I know from experience that a contract will hold up in court, and "I didn't read it" is no defence.
A written contract supersedes an oral contract.
By your reasoning I can go sign a mortgage contract and then take the bank to court after getting the money saying that they said I would never have to pay it back. What if you sell someone a car and come back 2 years later saying it broke but they say you promised them a 3 year warranty (but sales contract says no warranty, whereis as is)?
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You can go to court and attack the contracts. It's up to them to decide if the contract is acceptable or not. Obviously in your examples, the court will uphold the contract.
If in your mortgage contract it said you had to pay 10M USD if one of your payments is late, they will say it's unconscionable.
For example, Microsoft and software companies put all kinds of shit in their contract that you can't resell your used software license. The EU court decided it was unlawful and those parts of the contracts can't be enforced.
In my opinion, for a porn contract to say that videos will be on the internet, that's perfectly normal and expected, and they can't attack that.
But if they find that they told some girls they were signing a contract for a non-nude modeling job, ushered the girls to sign it quickly without reading, and used the "refusal to shoot results in a big fine" part to blackmail them into getting nude, it won't hold up in my opinion.
And this is how it went according to the article, as I understood. With all that said, I also hope it's not true.