just to add a small note,i've worked for r.b.w & found a tape with myself on it being sold . I had no idea it was being filmed,i'm not moaning about this ,just would of been nice to be told before hand. :twisted:

Good stuff!!... If you don't love the things that you do there really is no point doing them. Money on this side of the pond isn't the huge factor... Getting your promotion in to the public eye is. When you can do that, the spoils of victory will be yours!

It shows that unless we sign/agree whatever to a release our property (image, matches etc), it remains ours.


The image and the charater will always remain your property unless signed over to work a show. Contract always come first and when ever I or the company that I work for book an artiste (music, entertainment or whoever) the said person MUST sign a contract or we will over book and not use them. This saves people no showing and fans not being let down. In my line of work the target market is primary... We are there to meet their needs on all entertainment levels.

NO contract NO show! It's as simple as that. Hell... I have one of my family members that works with me and he signed a secrecy contract as not to pre release any diclosed information. There is a £15'000 default on that contract... I know he doesn't have £15'000... therefore NO DEFAULT. Easy. Business teaches some very harsh lessons... Take it from someone who has been screwed more than Jenna Jameson, but corrected all my errors for the next time. I love my business and have more than paid my dues.

Stam

Contracts are good business sense, to be sure.

How you doing Vasey? Ain't seen you for a few months...

If a promoter asks a wrestler to work a show for them then the performance and use of the persona for that show is classed as the promoters interlectual property, therefor by agreeing to work a show your ageeing to any form of distrubution of your work, when you join the Garage for training your asked to sign a disclamer prononcing your concent to have your self portrade on photos and vidoes, the safest way i guess.

That sort of thing would really save any mix up's in the end. A promoter will only run in to problems when they start to book prema performers (people who think more of themselves than most other people)... This is where greed comes in on some occasions... But thats a totally different topic altogether.

Stam

If a promoter asks a wrestler to work a show for them then the performance and use of the persona for that show is classed as the promoters interlectual property, therefore by agreeing to work a show your ageeing to any form of distrubution of your work.

It doesn't mean anything of the sort, unless the promoter gives you your persona, _script_s the events and your matches at which point you just become an actor. The promoter may THINK thats what it means, but the legal issues of intellectual property must be adressed, IE talked about/agreed on in a contract of some sort, before he can legally make such a claim. Most wrestlers (myself included) aren't so anal about this subject, but it is a very real possiblility that some are...

The law on this is very clear and ignorance of the law is no-excuse.