Even Ursula gave Ariel a free trial and a chance to keep her legs if she gets the Prince on time. When your company is worse than a disney villain literally made to be considered pure evil you know you fucked up.
Even when the singer is average he's happy. He still owns them 500 average singers UA-cam advertising money still adds up to a decent figure, add that to 200 magicians, 100 comics, 300 dancers, that random ventriloquist... Etc. This contract is just as harmful if youre mediocre, he still owns you
Doesn't make it good or right. Doesn't make starry eyed performers less vulnerable. Doesn't make the industry any less cunty. Doesn't make your comment less ignorant.
spankeyfish more like unlikable. the only people i’ve seen from britains got talent in literal years were the people in compilations of ‘rudest contestants’
Lilwill Newell it’s just that getting the golden buzzer immediately puts you forth into the live semi finals, meaning that your rights over your singing UA-cam content etc. decrease even further.
It isn't morally wrong, it is a company making a profit and knowing individuals considering it worth the price. Do you expect them to say "here's free advertising for you on our EXTREMELY popular show" they have a right to operate however they want, if any of you who are complaining were in the position to write your own contracts, you would realize it is just business. Don't like it? Don't sign. It is morally wrong by your standards but it is a good deal by the standards of people who sign it and instantly become nationally or even internationally recognisable. People complaining are just over-entitled brats that expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter of one-sided gain. Of course, Britains got talent will gain more in this situation and of course, they will milk it as much as they possibly can, they are in the position to do so. Artists that need the popularity so much that they sign that contract are obviously going to fail without Britains got talent and as such will have to pay some price which evidently isn't an upfront fee. If they don't need it and are doing it of their own accord just for greed, that's their problem. Jesus christ I hate what this society has become... "This company isn't making it easy enough on me and that's not faaaaaair!!" it's either this contract or a hefty upfront fee, worth whatever you can put on instant advertisement to 8.5 million viewers.
My friend's niece was going to be on there, and they had to go sign this. She had to make their own way there. They didn't get to see the full contract, just an abridged version. A solicitor was in place to answer any questions. They also had an 30 minute window to do this. She had the fortitude to take her dad along who although not a solicitor, was very familiar with contract speak and basically told them to stick it up their collective arse.
Mister Highway is thinking about the end so is EVERYONE that works under a contract. (Which by law, you have to be). you meet the requirements set in a contract or you're sacked. Theres no flaw.
And now when I see Simon hitting the Golden Buzzer I get why. He is just seeing another money-making poor human being for himself and that's why he's so happy about it.
I wonder how they let Gatis Kandis get away with it. It seems weird, as you said that everyone else (mostly) who was on BGT, AGT, SAGT, etc, have now disappeared from the internet.
Watch_the kid there's probably quite a lot. What's that got to do with this video? What do we know what they go through unless its in the media? What do you call depression? EVERYBODY gets depressed in some form. Your question is too broad.
Indigo as I seen this comment I was watching ghost Rider and it was at the part where the devil said u just have to sign the contract but gets a paper cut what a coincidence
This was really insightful. I expected that contestants wouldn't get much choice with signing on if they won, but the fact that they inherit your own social media material just by your applying for the competition is just ridiculous. Vids like these are great by the way, keep it up
By the way, at 9:30, the expression is “full stop”, not “period”. This ‘ . ‘ is a “full stop” in British English, not a “period”, which is American English.
@@markios6824 no not really they may want to show how aweful you are are think your nuts and would be funny on tv its a tv show they want content and any content that will get them views
Bravefar, they want everybody who auditions to sign, including the terrible acts. So no, it doesn't mean you have the talent to shop around, just that they want to own you in case it turns out that you aren't awful enough to entertain one time. Ilona Savreska, if you don't sign, you don't get on the show, so the conclusion of the video is don't go on the show at all.
The saddest part is that people go into this with genuine hopes and dreams of making a career for themselves in the entertainment industry, and those genuine hopes and dreams can outweigh the doubts they might have about the contract. And then of course there's people who don't really read the contract and end up signing their careers away. This is pure exploitation and this is the reason I can't stomach any of these shows. Glad you're speaking out about it.
jenni Very true. I've always hated these kinds of shows for this very reason. People who actually work at their craft get shafted while some jumped up tosser plays on TV for a bit and *might* win.
Johnathan Guy contracts that practically make you a slave as long as you sign exist so you shouldn't be surprised. Contracts can contain anything legit anything....
Momo kun Contracts can contain anything but even your agreement doesn't make the clauses legally enforceable if they are not supported by legislation. This contract as described by this video has several clauses that are just entirely unenforceable.
I'm not a layer, But I've worked with legal contracts before and am pretty well-versed in what they are and what their value is. This contract sounds pretty nasty, but there seems a loophole in the wording that can be exploited to shield yourself from the worst part. The worst part about signing over ownership of your online content. What you can do is, sign ownership of all of your existing online content (Your youtube account and it's content, twitter, ect.) over to a friend before signing the BGT contract. And let him keep ownership of it for the duration of your contract with BGT. You can then have a gentleman's agreement with him/her (Obviously make sure that you trust this person) so that any profit he makes from the channel and the rest of your content gets sent back to you and that when the BGT contract ends, he will sign your content back to you. This allows you to make your existing tweets and online content untouchable by BGT because everything you've posted is your friend's content, not yours even though you produced it. By the wording you used, it seems to me that only standing contracts (Such as licensing) will make you illegible, meaning completed contracts (such as signing complete ownership of your content to a friend) shouldn't affect your privilege to sign the BGT contact. Other than that, make sure that whatever performance you make while your under contract is something that you don't mind losing the rights to. You should make an act specifically for BGT. Obviously you should still avoid appearing publicly or creating new content while you're still under contract but using this loophole (Which you can do with other content as well such as CD's and other publications if you want to be on the safe side) should keep your past content completely safe while you pursue BGT.
Solicitor is lawyer is England... The contract states any contract you're in is now theirs too. They own the money you're friend gives you if they become aware of it
Saw this in recommended, didn't know the channel, clicked for the title but because of the length I was expecting a vlog-type video that would only get to the title in like the last 5 minutes. I was pleasently surprised; you got straight to the point and had me entertained and interested throughout. Great job, have my like sir!
Idk if this is true or not tbh. I mean, if it were this aggregious, why are we only finding out *now* ? These talent shows have been around for a long time now, and nobody ever said a word afaik.
God damn finally someone came out with this stuff. I signed a ND and still told people about these contracts they try to get you to sign after they make you sign the ND. Happy my dad didn't let me sign this (being 12 at the time). Glad someone managed to get this out there!
Glad you spoke out. I didn't have to go through that to know better, not that I ever had talent. Well... some people think I do, but I would never put it out there like that.
Most of the clauses in this contract are fair, however, let's go through the ones you see as controversial. I'll take it point by point. Having a clause whereby you agree to another contract which is not formed and the terms made clear and explicit to you, would not hold up if they tried to enforce it. Contracts also can't act retrospectively, so they do not, and cannot own your previous content. They also cannot ban you from releasing new material, especially not things like Tweets/Facebook posts, only material that relates to the show directly, again, regardless of terms, contracts cannot control your life to that extent and if they tried to take it to court it wouldn't stand. As for adapting your image, this means so they can photoshop you onto backgrounds for posters etc. not to make you look bad, as you seem to think, as this clause has clearly defined limits in legal precedent. For example, they cannot photoshop you having sex with a pig and put it on posters, as this would constitute defamation and misleading of the public. Next, you say you license over your rights to your original perfomance - yes - you LICENSE it, meaning they don't own it, but they can use it, and this is necessary for them to be able to show it legally on television in the UK. You then say it's mean for them to be able to remove them for any reason they choose, and this is fair and normal in almost every contract, e.g. going to a bar, the management always reserve the right to remove the people they see fit, it's to protect against lawsuits from people who think they were unfairly disqualified, and is a VERY common clause. As for not appearing online, they mean in terms of interviews, they cannot legally stop your friends/family taking photos of you and posting them online, again, if they tried to ever enforce it in this way it would fail (not that they ever would). Not being liable for injury unless you can prove it, what is unfair about that? That is quite literally just how Tort Law (lawsuits) works. As for varying the terms of the contract when a clause becomes unlawful - if they modify the contract you always have to agree to the change, this is again - the law. You can choose to disagree and keep the original contract with the (now) unenforceable clause. If anyone disagrees, feel free to reply! :)
It’s with all TV talent shows sadly. A friend of mine auditioned for the voice and then got in and signed the contract blindly since he was only 16 and didn’t know better. He got moved forward to audition in front of the celebrity judges and no one turned their chair for him. They never even put his audition on TV and yet he is now stuck with a seven year contract. He didn’t know about that much about the contract though and decided to work hard for two years to go audition for the x-factor. He auditioned and got a yes from all 4 judges but once they learned he had a contract with the voice they dropped him. He couldn’t get any jobs in the music industry or do anything. Couldn’t even upload his own music online. It’s absolutely horrible.
Ugh Sadly probably many have already done that. Blindly signing a contract. There is some things you would never do. And one of them is to sign a contract blindly.
The contract will have been offered on a 'take it or leave it' basis and are highly likely to be non-negotiable. Contestants aren't forced to enter the contract, so it ultimately falls onto the contestant whether or not they wish to sign their life away.
This contract is 100% non-negotiable. The contestants have absolutely zero to offer Cowell before they are made famous by the show, and he controls whether they become famous.
I had one of these contracts for the Bulgarian Music Idol (I have never signed it tho) and you are not allowed to show this contract to a lawyer or anyone else. Also you are not allowed to mention the show or the producers anywhere, otherwise you'll be charged 100 000 €
If its legal for them to basically say "You cant sue us for anything but what we tell you you can sue for" then there is something seriously wrong with the legal system
Technically and unfortunately no there is not. Because a company like SiCo has the authority to impose such power and terms on their slaves, Oh ....sorry no contestants. They are not breaching any law or even Human Rights legislation in the UK. So therefore as these Terms and Conditions only affect what the person's Virtual, Internet Life consists of there are no legal repercussions or ramifications for the cooperation. Its is disgusting that people are basically allowed to treated this way. But wait....does this not affect most areas of industry as a whole.....such as the video game industry (Specifically in the United States) and the shady practices which transpire there. (Oh yes...EA)
It doesn't work that way, phone contracts are a popular example used by lawyers to demonstrate this point. Even if you consent to a term in the contract that term still has to follow the rules of contract common law and statute Therefore if you agree to a term that doesn't follow contract law, your consent cannot be used to justify this A lot of terms in mobile phone contracts are not authoritative but they are put in anyway. In reality the phone company couldn't enforce these terms even if they wanted to
You can only demand terms within the legal system. You can't supersede nor have any terms and conditions that are statutorially(?) illegal i.e. The Company allows you to sell cocaine at half street value.
Exodus There is no common law any more, that has all been superseded with Statutes. There are no contracts in common law other than natural law and common sense.
The contract in short: They can do literally WHATEVER they want, they own everything you've ever ever made, you can't do ANYTHING unless they say so, you don't get any money for your work unless they say so, and you can't tell ANYONE about how they treat you. Vile.
Just another corporate money only focused company manipulating contestants and rigging the competition so that the most relevant acts win, its not talent, but popularity that's wins. Absolutely all acts who have won the show or competed at a high stage in the show are utterly average at best at what they do, since they're not judged by professionals in that particular skill/art they are performing in. Acts because of this fact dont last long mostly in their careers after winning. But the company owned by Cowell, syco or whoever it is will always drop their act after they dont hit targets made for them, I would presume a certain unrealistic amount of revenue must be earned by the act to keep them on, people are treated like dirt and cast away for the winner of the subsequent year, how many xfactor winners get dropped after about a year lol, having a competition each and every year is completely unfair on the winners aa fhe limelight is taken away from them almost immediately after they win, a career every year is ruined. Yet i will never understand the publics desire to support these evil companies and Cowell, oh yeah i forgot, they target kids and young teenagers who generally do not have enough life experience to understand about money and manipulation, and this dark side of talent shows in general.
CTV was Wise to cancel Canadian Idol because more than likely they didn’t want to waste money on Simon Cowell’s Garbage 🗑 Shows, Idol AGT BGT X Factor are Rigged Fixed and a Scam. The Voice is no better.
I genuinely think that a contract with the devil might be a better alternative than this shit. I mean, you could become the best human being at everything in the entire world with the devil's contract. With this bloke's, you're guaranteed to have no profitable online life whatsoever, nor are you gonna have any privacy, and you're probably still gonna go to hell. I'd say fuck it and ask the devil for the superpower to create my own superpowers at a moment's notice and control them however i see fit. I wouldn't even care that i'd have sold my sole to fucking Satan himself, as i've already got several luxury class tickets to hell anyways. :/
No wonder one of the girls from fifth harmony answered the question from an audience member "what advice would you give to an aspiring artist?" by saying "read your contracts".
as disgusting as this is, sadly its not uncommon. i know some contracts also seeps into your personal life, say, you arent allowed to date anyone so long as youre under that company its inhumane
Don't say that! There are plenty of real entertainment schools designed to teach and foster your talent and further your career. Syco(and many other) makes reality TV shows and are a insult to what art is. But you don't need talent, it's all hard work and joy in what you do. If you enjoy doing it, you'll get good at it. No one is born a singer or musician. never too late to start. If you look up real competitions, they are night and day with this "talent show." There is barely any talking between judges and performer. No backstory, how beautiful you are don't matter. You speak with your performance. There's a proper dress code, etiquette and skill level required. You are judged based on technical standards(not just insults like Simon) ranging from execution, style, tempo etc. There's proper constructive feedback and winning or losing is not that big of a deal since anyone that make it pass the preliminaries already have the skills to have a future ahead of them. What it does is challenging you, a learning experience and helps you grow as a performer.
Brian Hawes I don't believe in natural talent. Some people might catch on to things faster but anybody can do most things (unless you're mentally or physically disabled obviously) you just have to try.
@1 1 one direction as a band is still under syco. Though as solo artists they are signed off to different labels( Harry-columbia , Zayn-RCA and Louis-syco/arista...still under different branches of Sony). But they have one common contract. They did not allow Louis to get out of syco. And he was probably forced to judge the x-factor 2018.
Difference: Devil will take your soul and give you something else(examples: power, money, love). Brits got talent will take every single bit of your previous and future live away from you, making you basically a slave.
Muutrix de AngelPlayer yeah but then you also burn in hell for like 1000 years after your contract with the devil is up so.....have fun with that i guess.
being homeless sounds better than this.... dont understand how parents exploit their child and essentially enslave them under these contracts for the trade of a quick buck to them.
I don't think most parents think like that, they're just deluded into making their kid's dream come true. Most either don't read the contract or get sweet talked into doing it, hooked in by their good faith.
they are excited that their kid has talent and somebody gives them a stage. and while they are still hapy that their kid got accepted they get that paperwork. not per mail but of course in persoin whicxh makes them feel even more special and even more overexcitzed. the kid feels special and happy too the "salesman" talksd with the kids and the parents "all that´s left is to sign here" and only people working in business know how disgusting business is, nobody really understands the legal euphermisms anyway and the kid is like "come on daddy, sign" and daddy without reading and understanding it signs it. it´s evben more disgusting with kids than how for instance i pressurized customers to taking contracts in the past. It´s the kid doing the job for the guy from sico and the kid has WAY more emotional leverage .when i sold phone contracts for kids i went like "don´t y
Yeah? Go do something else with your life then. No one is forcing you to do it. If you're smart, you will make a lot of money from this. Or, like I said, go do something else. And like another commentor said, people in Dubai working like actual ( if not literal) slaves, PROBABLY have it a little worse.
Why does the Hunger Games remind me of the chess club at my new high school. The chess club is a dog eat dog competition. I wish I was on the team but it sounds hard.
Ben Wilson you are right, though in my limited understanding, civil law is much more complicated than criminal law, which makes it way too costly for someone to who is not a multi-billionaire company to take said company to court. Also so much hassle. And unlike the contestants, they can pay for really good lawyers who'd spin the story any way they like. I'm only vaguely aware of a few cases when an individual sued such a big company, and only a couple of successful ones. But then again, I never looked into this properly
Anyone who asks you to sign a NDA unless it's to do with child protection or state secrets should be treated with extreme suspicion. There are certain times when ethically you'd keep your mouth shut such as actors in a series saying something that will spoil the surprise the series has lined up for its viewers. But then, it should only need a verbal agreement not to say anything, not a contract. The problem with contract law is that it goes through a civil court and people like Simon Cowell have enough money to pay for top lawyers that you can only dream about affording. The problem is seperating the two terms "Legal" and "Ethical" and judging on the basis of the latter rather than the former. Civil judges really need to start considering the ethical grounds and using that as a guideline since the law is really made in the courtroom based on precedents set by judges. It only needs one case to go in the contestants favour on ethical grounds and that contract would be destined for the bin.
Tryst46, there are many good reasons for having an NDA. Corporate secrets for instance. You don't want people having access to the source code for your bank's website, and your bank doesn't want its employees sharing inside information with other banks either. If you are an employer trying to hire people and you have a test that you use to eliminate people before first round interviews, you don't want that test and its answers being made publicly available, that defeats the purpose of the test. That being said, an NDA that prevents people from talking about this contract sure is dubious. The only reason you'd want an NDA to prevent people from reading a contract that they would be forced to sign at some point is because you know that people won't be interested if they know they have to sign the contract beforehand.
Korean label/music companies: *sees this* Ha, hold my beer son. (For real, though. Y'all talking bout "slavery" - y'all haven't seen NOTHING yet if you don't know how k-pop companies work. Whole different ballgame. Takes the meaning of slavery to a new level. After all, they're not called manufactured idols for no reason... Talk about having no free will. Smh. It's so sad. They're basically contractually obliged not to have a social life, see their families when they want, eat when they want, or even breach the contract since they're monitored 24/7. It's awful and there's basically no way out since their money and lives are constantly being controlled by their management. That's why you've got so many cases of hospitalization due to dieting/stress/exhaustion and dozens of cases of suicide in the past 10 years due to pressure.)
M e y a Well, no one asked anyone anything in this comment section, but does that mean no one can reply? Sure their post was a little off topic, but it still discusses corruption of ideas and intellectual property, and goes beyond that into the scope of dangerously controlling institutions, made, just like BGT, to prey on the talent of others. It’s very relevant.
Its done 19:41 in uk atm lets see how long will it take to be taken down, Its in the comment section of their newest video. How I love freedom of speech
Fifi Who knows a guy that knows a cousin who knows a pegasus who knows a god who knows a guy who knows a goat...(reference to Percy Jackson Book Series)
A bully from my school who everyone hated went on this show in 2011. He got through to the semi finals and they painted him like a perfect child and. They had all the teachers on there saying he was a golden child and even asked people from my class to go to the news cameras and act like his friends which obviously no-one wanted to do. He got disqualified for something and no-one ever heard from him again, all his social media was down and I never saw him out anywhere. Pretty sure now he's working behind the tills in an asda or co-op or something like that. now you said about how they own all their social medias I'm wondering if they found out he was an awful child and so made up a reason to disqualify him and not let him online. I just checked and he still doesn't have social media.
or people who know that he is grossly exagerating the situation and that these clauses are there for good reason to protect the company from not getting scammed themselves. Not like he doesn't sign his content away as well...
Haha xvlad, greed ends suddenly if people destroy capitalism? capitalism, a tool Which has helped them function as a society and even have plenty of leisure time? Greed won’t end but reliable food and needs supplies will, freedom do do what you want to do instead of what the marxists in charge make you do will.The fallacious thinking of capitalism as anything other than a tool will. The belief in the communist propaganda of our fake Facebook groups and fake media will. It’s like if I said I want to be free and then I quit my job for freedom, but now I can’t provide for myself so I have to beg. It would be unimaginably disasterous if people were useful idiots enough to destroy capitalism....then when things are like that we’llsee greed like we’ve never seen before.
Full rights to your "image"... And this is how they get away with making some people absolute Butt-Monkeys, constantly showing them in the most humiliating or unflattering light for the world to laugh at - the person concerned is contractually forbidden to complain about it. Their "brand" is "laughable fuckwit" or "horrible ranty person" to contrast the brand of "Most wonderful person", "Most talented". After all, how can we know how great the person being built up is if we don't have someone else to tear down? It's an unhealthy, depraved dynamic. Other "Reality TV" is just as bad, so the content of this contract is most likely indicative of what's in the contracts for the likes of Survivor Island, The Bachelor, Big Brother etc. If they want to paint you as the villain by focusing on the times you lost your rag or said something that can be taken out of context, then you are the villain - because every show *needs* a villain and how can we advertise our show effectively without putting a clip or picture of someone up with "Is this UK's/USA's/The World's MOST HATED man/woman/child/amoeba?" How do they get away with this? The public can't get enough of shit like this and people are so hungry for fame or for the money/contracts they perceive they might get if they win that there's vast amounts of money to be made and no shortage of victims. Passed the initial audition for this (or any other "Reality" programme and don't want to sign the contract because it's demeaning? Fuck off, then, we've got plenty of victims, I mean _people_ who are prepared to sign. The show is rigged and uses downright deceptive editing and obligatory "choices" to spin out the conflict, suspense etc? Who cares? Plenty of people will tune in to watch it, anyway - even though a 3-year-old would wonder why the "nasty person" that everyone is hating has made it through to the semi-final and not been kicked/"voted" off already. They're nothing but fucking meat-mills; this contract - while truly disgusting - is not (unfortunately) surprising.
Because people willingly signing it. The contract is put in front of you. You have the chance to read and understand it. If you still sign this shit, its your fault.
This is why when the producer of the show rang me up (nice enough guy, he had managed Sigur Ros and a few other successful artists in the past) and asked me if I wanted to go on the show and go straight to the TV round I politely told him what I thought of the show. I'm still unsigned, still trying to get somewhere with my music/make a living via it. But I have no regrets.
@@SamKennedy61004 Why would I make this up on a youtube comment. Want me to show you the emails from the producer of the show at the time Stephen Jones?
Good for you? I never even showed my opinion, you just assumed I was american for no apparent reason even though, to be honest, i'd rather fucking shoot myself than be American
Wow! I actually applied for Britain's got talent about 6 years ago, I'm so glad I didn't go ahead with it. I'm happy uploading my music on here for my 195 subscribers lol
You know he edited it bcz everyone gave him hate bcz they thought he was criticising the video.but tru...it is awful ;) I mean the contract,not the video.
yep, they are trying to find desperate people with actual talent that they can basically own forever, but if you look at people like Susan Boyle who wouldnt even use social media it prob works fine for them. Its all about control and protection.
I can't believe anyone is still watching Jeremy Kyle "reality" tv and stuff like this. A watch is a vote for more garbage. I've stopped watching tv totally now and I've never been happier. I watched Gintama, Death Note (anime etc. and the philosophy and interesting stories they make in Japan is a lot better (takes a bit to get going but really , it's smart ). I also used UA-cam to learn Crochet (from Happyberry's Mandala - copying and pausing her actions to follow till I got it) and knitting and it's fantastic! Just check out the awesome yarns you can get like Qing Fibre, Hedgehog Fibres (and it's free patterns), Walkcollection, Scheepjes list of bloggers with free little i.e mug mat/phone case patterns.. I'm making the free Sophies Universe pattern. Ravelry has a community of patterns/ spotlights/ etc. too.
I was wondering why Zoe Alexander only quite recently spoke out about her experience so long after it had ruined her life: she legally couldn't until recently. That's so f*cked.
The music industry has ripped off every artist for decades. People like Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Nina Simone, The Beatles, Prince.....they all got mercilessly robbed. Prince was the first artist to escape his agency, and release his music through the internet. The very first. People get excited, they're desperate, they think a big company will be their friend and they'll make a fortune enjoying themselves. But the reality is that the industry will work you to death, take all of your money and then drop you. To succeed you need to be 95% business and 5% music.
why do you think prince told them all to fuck off ... he sold all his music from his own website and made more cash doing that than he ever did with a record contract .. i shit you not he made millions
thesouthernlord it's not that you can't get rich with the music industry, just that they will make it so you do what they say and make them richer than you.
they, like the stones, got screwed over by their first contract. they got bought out shortly after, and then negociated what has become known as "the best deal in the music industry", for the musicians. they were fully in control of their musical output and products, iirc the only thing the record company got was 5% and the responsibility to make them tour. that label was friggin' desperate, and in the end didn't even regret they got shafted it was such a boom to business. now, sabbath and slipknot? both bad contracts (the first ones at least), and sabbath had a corrupt manager on top of it. they were almost always bankrupt. despite slipknot's first two albums going multi-platinum, all 9 of them were heavily in debt rather than millionaires. goes to show that a nose for business beats musical creativity.
I thought you were responding to Luci but I guess you were just responding to the OP... Either way, your comment is half-arsed and tells me nothing if I didn't watch the video, whereas Luci's does. *cryinglaughemojicryinglaughemojicryinglaughemoji*
It's definitely what they call a "slave contract" and they are all too common. Metal Blade records signed Metallica, The Goo Goo Dolls and my others to pretty much the same type of contract. Both Metallica and Goo Goo Dolls had to go to court to show how unfair the contract was and won their cases. Aerosmith's contract with their first manager was also a "slave Contract" but was so air tight that the only way Aerosmith was able to get out of that contract was to still give their former manager 25% of everything the band made in future revenues. Its still going on to this day, over 40 yrs later. Aerosmith can release an album, it can make $10 million dollars and their former agent will STILL get $2.5 million. I know America's Got Talent HAD a similar contract but has since altered it. I had a friend who appeared on one of the first seasons and he told me how one sided the contract was, almost to the point of being illegal. Even though he signed it and appeared, he still wound up bringing in a legal team to alter it. (My friend has money and performs for fun, he doesnt need the cash but wanted the exposer for his act ) Another reason they had to alter their contract was because of Terry Fator , a ventriloquist who won season 2 of AGT. Back then the winner received $1 million dollars (paid out over 20 years which equates to a lil over $4k a month) and a show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Terry Fator was such a HUGE hit in Las Vegas that another casino, the Mirage, offered him $25 million AND his own theater in their casino. A new agreement was reached because there was no way in HELL the Mirage casino is going to make that kind of investment and have AGT collect all the merchandising rights from T-Shirts, Ticket Sales, Plush toys of Terry's characters etc. Believe it or not, its not just the contestants who are subjugated to a strict contract with AGT. We just lost Nick Cannon, the host of AGT. Nick has his hands in a lot of different types of careers including stand up comedy. He made a joke (thats wasnt even close to being racist by ANY standard but the top brass at NBC TV Studio that airs AGT thought it was) and told him he was a "brand representative" and as such needed to be more careful in what he says. That was when Nick quit. I get it, these shows do put you on a world wide stage with a much larger audience than you may ever reach on your own so some compensation is expected but at what point is enough enough?
This post has been up for 8 months and the only 3 responses to this comment are within an hour of each other. Thanks youtube for putting this video in my recommended list.
I came to this video because it was in my recommended list and had no idea that it was on Reddit. Still though 5 comments within an hour on an 8 month old post.
I’m a model, dancer and blogger and I was considering auditioning for the show but now I’m never going to audition. When I signed my contracts for modelling I read every single word to make sure nothing sketchy was there and then asked my parents to do the same before signing. But some people just can’t be bothered and sadly end up signing their life away all to some words printed on a paper. Yes it’s disgusting what BGT are doing.
it's just to creepy when I think about it. I went to auditions in a different talent show, and I just skimmed through it, I'm glad I didn't pass the pre rounds, funny thing is, they choose (the best) and (the worst) those in between, that have somewhat talent, but not that special don't get far. so it's creepy they use the worst people just for views and to humiliate them. they handed out stickers before we entered the building (red and green) waay before contact signing, red means bad dressed or funny , green is best dressed. they use that for humiliation as well.
What does celebrity mean any more? It seems to be something to help dumb down society, where talentless celebs are over hyped, to dumb down people to think they should want to be like that. People are told to admire trash worse than most people
La1 completely wrong, since you think society is made up of 13 year old girls. If you're trash, then you'll admire a trashy celebrity, if you are not, then you won't admire that celebrity, simple as that. No one is *told* to do anything like you imply. You seem to have a really closed and narrow view of the world.
rikki kingston I'm sorry but thinking that all that celebrities do is dumb people down is a very close minded statement. Any statement that generalizes a social group without taking into factor all the other possibilities that that group could have is in fact being closed minded. Celebrities don't just include pop stars. Celebrities could include Poets, scientists, scholars, etc... Sure, peer pressure plays into this, but the most manipulable minds are the young ones, and that's why I jokingly said that La1 thinks society is made up of 13 year olds. I'm sorry pal, but you didn't change my mind, and I still stand with what I said.
Probably more like, "Patrick, why did BGT sue you and your grandma for 11 million dollars and have you enslaved at Simon Cowell's right hand?" "Shh, I can't tell you without _his_ permission!"
Legally valid? Of course it is, you gave consent to it. Nobody forced your signature, you did it in a clear state of mind. Ethics only apply to very specific things like Racial Discrimination, or selling an individual against their will into slavery. Im being a bit over dramatic, but trying to make a point that contracts have ways of dodging every law while still feeling illegal or shady. It takes huge people with lawyers to fight it, but nobody can because they signed a NDA agreement, which prevents them from telling anyone. Then they also signed this contract which prevents them from getting another Lawyer because they must be EXCLUSIVE to what the company has. You will have to deal with hefty fines and be brave along with 100 other people who are willing to risk their lives to get this contract changed. Show business afterall.
It is not legally binding/valid. This guy (from the video) does not cover equity and trusts, unfair terms and other quite specific areas of law. This guy does not know what he is talking about.
Additionally, You cannot have an implied or express term in a contract which restricts your statutory rights (there are very, very specific exclusions which don't apply here). Statutory rights such as the Human Rights ((act)which incorporates EU law into our UK legal system). Either the lawyers are quite dumb, this bloke is quite dumb or its all made up.
A clear-headed adult deciding to sign this contract is one thing. Adults signing away their small children's lives is a whole other level. I don't think a 10 year old let alone a 5 year old really understand the repercussions of signing such a contract. Furthermore, what about people who have a disability that limits their ability to understand this contract? What legal guardian in his/her right mind would sign or aid in signing such a document?!
Thanks for that video. I thought a few times about going on any of these shows for fun, but I think I´ll keep on doing music on YT. Fighting with copyright is better than having my content completely taken away from me.
It’s literally a reality show, I expect nothing less from it sadly, I was just at the live show of America’s got talent and literally everythingggg is planned. I went on a Wednesday and the acts sucked so I went on Saturday and all the acts were great and they pressed the golden buzzer. As the act was performing, I looked over to the side of the stage and a crew member was nonchalantly holding a white board telling a judge to push the gold (mainly cuz of the boys inspiring story) so the new judge pushed it
The contract where Ursala took Ariel's voice away was a far better deal
Whahahaha! Couldn't have said that better myself...
Even Ursula gave Ariel a free trial and a chance to keep her legs if she gets the Prince on time. When your company is worse than a disney villain literally made to be considered pure evil you know you fucked up.
朝倉由美 There are just some villains in the world that Disney themselves couldn't even possibly think of.
blondy2061h it's the same thing x3
Ahhhh aaaahh aaaahhh ahhhhh ahhhhh ahhhhhhhh
So now i know why Simon gets this odd smile when theres a great singer on the show..
It just means hes about to make a lot of money..
You needed this video to realise that?
Even when the singer is average he's happy. He still owns them 500 average singers UA-cam advertising money still adds up to a decent figure, add that to 200 magicians, 100 comics, 300 dancers, that random ventriloquist... Etc. This contract is just as harmful if youre mediocre, he still owns you
okay but why would he not smile at a great singer though
He wins regardless of if the competitors do
it looks like this:😈😈
this is why I wear a mask. I accidentally won that contest one time
Life of Boris Daddy?
Didn't expect to see Boris in random youtube comments :D Tervitused :D
Well hello there or should i say cyka blyat, slav king? Oy blin, you are the true shashlik king.
*kurwa*
Lol, I was accidentaly scrolling comments and I did not expect to see you here
The shows dying anyway, all new talent is found on the internet now
El H it stills gets millions of people watching it
@@masterroshi1615 but it's declining
Doesn't make it good or right.
Doesn't make starry eyed performers less vulnerable.
Doesn't make the industry any less cunty.
Doesn't make your comment less ignorant.
It hasn't been about finding talent for years, it's pretty much just a gameshow now where the game is being likeable.
spankeyfish more like unlikable. the only people i’ve seen from britains got talent in literal years were the people in compilations of ‘rudest contestants’
This makes the Golden Buzzer seem like a prison sentence
NeekFeek a life sentence
NeekFeek ‘seem like’
When did he talk about the golden buzzer
Lilwill Newell it’s just that getting the golden buzzer immediately puts you forth into the live semi finals, meaning that your rights over your singing UA-cam content etc. decrease even further.
NeekFeek omg thats so true😂 those poor people!! :(
Is this...Legal Slavery?
Well damn i guess it is
*Jazz music stops*
Seems so. Also your profile pic and your comment, perfect.
Aubameyang They Force you to scrub toilets at their headquarters.
Signing any contract with a record label is
Everyone saying “it was their choice/they knew what they got into” doesn’t get the point. The point is that this contract is morally wrong.
morally bad, not morally wrong
Ashlynn Ozella yeah but that still doesn't change the fact that the artist's are mildly autistic for signing a contract without reading it
Ashlynn Ozella Yes it is. I'm not surprised at all by any of it though.
Ashlynn Ozella still they sign it
It isn't morally wrong, it is a company making a profit and knowing individuals considering it worth the price. Do you expect them to say "here's free advertising for you on our EXTREMELY popular show" they have a right to operate however they want, if any of you who are complaining were in the position to write your own contracts, you would realize it is just business. Don't like it? Don't sign. It is morally wrong by your standards but it is a good deal by the standards of people who sign it and instantly become nationally or even internationally recognisable.
People complaining are just over-entitled brats that expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter of one-sided gain. Of course, Britains got talent will gain more in this situation and of course, they will milk it as much as they possibly can, they are in the position to do so. Artists that need the popularity so much that they sign that contract are obviously going to fail without Britains got talent and as such will have to pay some price which evidently isn't an upfront fee. If they don't need it and are doing it of their own accord just for greed, that's their problem.
Jesus christ I hate what this society has become... "This company isn't making it easy enough on me and that's not faaaaaair!!" it's either this contract or a hefty upfront fee, worth whatever you can put on instant advertisement to 8.5 million viewers.
My friend's niece was going to be on there, and they had to go sign this. She had to make their own way there. They didn't get to see the full contract, just an abridged version. A solicitor was in place to answer any questions. They also had an 30 minute window to do this.
She had the fortitude to take her dad along who although not a solicitor, was very familiar with contract speak and basically told them to stick it up their collective arse.
Phew.
Thank god
*Speech 100*
Drakonus
No, thank the dad.
💀💀💀💀💀
and artists will continue to sign
Roger Bailey sadly yes but hopefully this warna others about these sort of crazy things.
And continue to make millions just like susan boyle and diversity did.
A Commenter theyre the ones making the £££££
Doesn't matter if it's $1 or $1,000,000 you're still a puppet tied to a string. Your measurement of success is flawed and ignorant.
Mister Highway is thinking about the end so is EVERYONE that works under a contract. (Which by law, you have to be). you meet the requirements set in a contract or you're sacked. Theres no flaw.
And now when I see Simon hitting the Golden Buzzer I get why. He is just seeing another money-making poor human being for himself and that's why he's so happy about it.
Palo Santo y
Palo Santo That may be why he mainly looks for singers(not even artists)
100% truth. The man has no heart
You just got that ?
People don't realise this?!
That's why we almost NEVER hear from contestants from shows like this.
No wonder Light Balance team is gone
I wonder how they let Gatis Kandis get away with it. It seems weird, as you said that everyone else (mostly) who was on BGT, AGT, SAGT, etc, have now disappeared from the internet.
StarTuber thought the same lol maybe he has their consent
agree, cant stand the sob stories and music they play either. shit tv.
i agree, and they are popular relative to the other contestants, not in the real world entertainment industry
Its a Kpop star contract, its a slavery/life-giveup contract
XQCentraL yeaaah
I did it but onkly did one round
Basically only join so they don't have to join the army
I AGREE
Kay Collarfeild Well no, they still have to do their training at some point, it’s still mandatory.
This contract is basically like a 8 year old child saying you can’t kill him because he activated god mode
holy shit ahahah
And he has harnessed anime
AHAHAH XD natsu dragneel has gone full dragon mode to produce this
no wonder why so many famous people are depressed... jesus
Where there's 1 depressed theres 100 that arent. Figures arent fact but using this as a reason for illness is ridiculous.
T-Bone got an idea, get your sibling to set up an account so when they confront you say it’s uploaded on “behalf” of you
Born Yesterday name one artist that hasn’t gone through a phase of serious depression
Watch_the kid there's probably quite a lot. What's that got to do with this video? What do we know what they go through unless its in the media? What do you call depression? EVERYBODY gets depressed in some form. Your question is too broad.
T-Bone Iii
thats literally like selling your soul to the devil
At least the devil let's you keep your stuff.
You'd get a better deal from the devil.
Indigo as I seen this comment I was watching ghost Rider and it was at the part where the devil said u just have to sign the contract but gets a paper cut what a coincidence
Who watches Ghost Rider in 2018
CRUSTYDOGTAlNT I do. something wrong with that
I was unaware slavery was legal in the UK...
Yes. Well now it is.
This was really insightful. I expected that contestants wouldn't get much choice with signing on if they won, but the fact that they inherit your own social media material just by your applying for the competition is just ridiculous.
Vids like these are great by the way, keep it up
Yeah, it's ridiculous and thank you, hoping to do more like this. Just finding the interesting topics!
Rails2Revolution I
By the way, at 9:30, the expression is “full stop”, not “period”. This ‘ . ‘ is a “full stop” in British English, not a “period”, which is American English.
Chris Owens The expression 'period' is also valid, it's just American English
Rails2Revolution social media is public domain
“We won’t compensate you until you take us to court”
*next line*
“You can’t take us to court. Ever.”
That's ..... Unsettling.
No wonder we hardly ever hear about anyone from these kind of shows ever again.
Helene Trøstrup you know Luke Friend, I have met him irl and I will be meeting up with Him again soon
Susan boil? 1 direction?
+Destiny FTW - I didn't say it never happened. :)
Helene Trøstrup ikr!
The 4.2K dislikes are the people who has signed this contract, who are forced to do it by Britian's got talent
@Prospection Numeric that’s so true
Basically, conclusion of this video:
Don't fucking sign the contract.
Ilona Savreska if they want to sign you then you have the talent to shop around other company's for a competitive contract.
@@markios6824 no not really they may want to show how aweful you are are think your nuts and would be funny on tv its a tv show they want content and any content that will get them views
William Buck oh hi Simon
Seems so simple.
Bravefar, they want everybody who auditions to sign, including the terrible acts. So no, it doesn't mean you have the talent to shop around, just that they want to own you in case it turns out that you aren't awful enough to entertain one time.
Ilona Savreska, if you don't sign, you don't get on the show, so the conclusion of the video is don't go on the show at all.
The saddest part is that people go into this with genuine hopes and dreams of making a career for themselves in the entertainment industry, and those genuine hopes and dreams can outweigh the doubts they might have about the contract. And then of course there's people who don't really read the contract and end up signing their careers away. This is pure exploitation and this is the reason I can't stomach any of these shows. Glad you're speaking out about it.
jenni Very true. I've always hated these kinds of shows for this very reason. People who actually work at their craft get shafted while some jumped up tosser plays on TV for a bit and *might* win.
honestly this is horrific, thank you for making this video, people could really get exploited with this, this show should be boycotted.
It's either fake or he has massively embellished it.
Zoroastrianistic Zoro I agree! My content should belong to me. I shouldn't have to give rights to someone to do what they please.
Your content does belong to you. This is nonsense.
Johnathan Guy contracts that practically make you a slave as long as you sign exist so you shouldn't be surprised. Contracts can contain anything legit anything....
Momo kun Contracts can contain anything but even your agreement doesn't make the clauses legally enforceable if they are not supported by legislation. This contract as described by this video has several clauses that are just entirely unenforceable.
I'm not a layer, But I've worked with legal contracts before and am pretty well-versed in what they are and what their value is.
This contract sounds pretty nasty, but there seems a loophole in the wording that can be exploited to shield yourself from the worst part.
The worst part about signing over ownership of your online content. What you can do is, sign ownership of all of your existing online content (Your youtube account and it's content, twitter, ect.) over to a friend before signing the BGT contract. And let him keep ownership of it for the duration of your contract with BGT. You can then have a gentleman's agreement with him/her (Obviously make sure that you trust this person) so that any profit he makes from the channel and the rest of your content gets sent back to you and that when the BGT contract ends, he will sign your content back to you. This allows you to make your existing tweets and online content untouchable by BGT because everything you've posted is your friend's content, not yours even though you produced it. By the wording you used, it seems to me that only standing contracts (Such as licensing) will make you illegible, meaning completed contracts (such as signing complete ownership of your content to a friend) shouldn't affect your privilege to sign the BGT contact.
Other than that, make sure that whatever performance you make while your under contract is something that you don't mind losing the rights to. You should make an act specifically for BGT.
Obviously you should still avoid appearing publicly or creating new content while you're still under contract but using this loophole (Which you can do with other content as well such as CD's and other publications if you want to be on the safe side) should keep your past content completely safe while you pursue BGT.
Illusioneer don’t you mean lawyer
Homeboy just broke the system
@@Slowpokeinabathtub I think he meant to say that he's not a bricklayer.
Solicitor is lawyer is England...
The contract states any contract you're in is now theirs too. They own the money you're friend gives you if they become aware of it
Michael Keegan then wait till the contract is over to get the money
Saw this in recommended, didn't know the channel, clicked for the title but because of the length I was expecting a vlog-type video that would only get to the title in like the last 5 minutes.
I was pleasently surprised; you got straight to the point and had me entertained and interested throughout.
Great job, have my like sir!
Luke S me too fantastic post!
same
It's either completely fake or massively over-exaggerated.
Idk if this is true or not tbh. I mean, if it were this aggregious, why are we only finding out *now* ? These talent shows have been around for a long time now, and nobody ever said a word afaik.
Luke S sameee
SiCo sounds like psycho…wonder why
Silicone and Cobalt? I don't think they can react...
Because that's what they are
SImon COwell. Lmao.
It's actually SyCo
Because it will make you scared to go in the shower ?
Isnt this slavery with extra steps?
Basically yeah it sounds like a contract of indentured servitude written very cleverly to skirt the prohibitions on slavery and indenture in law.
somebody's gonna get laid in college
Gordon isn't that a quote from Rick and morty
@@Blurro FINALLY
You talking about capitalism?
Took me longer than I’d like to admit to realise you were saying SICO and not calling him a psycho 😂
Well, he's a psycho too, so you weren't wrong 👀
Until I read your comment I assumed Psycho as well lol
It's SYCO - it's the name of Simon Cowell's company.
The automatic YT subtitles say psycho indeed
Omg🤣 love this comment, since I watched video with subtitles they recognised it as a "psycho" too hahaha
No ... ... that's not a contract from Britain's Got Talent, that's a contract from Britain's Got Slavery.
I'm laughing... but I shouldn't 😂
pakman184 Jesus Christ clam your arse its a fucking joke buddy
Hey, at last we've got a sane comment, out of all these.
Ronny Japutra good old Britain back to owning people do we need another revolution?
Mario Luna, we need more people like TheStonedGamer 420, who won't be agitated by crappy contracts.
God damn finally someone came out with this stuff. I signed a ND and still told people about these contracts they try to get you to sign after they make you sign the ND. Happy my dad didn't let me sign this (being 12 at the time). Glad someone managed to get this out there!
an under 18 cannot sign a legally binding contract anyway.
Glad you spoke out. I didn't have to go through that to know better, not that I ever had talent. Well... some people think I do, but I would never put it out there like that.
Most of the clauses in this contract are fair, however, let's go through the ones you see as controversial.
I'll take it point by point. Having a clause whereby you agree to another contract which is not formed and the terms made clear and explicit to you, would not hold up if they tried to enforce it.
Contracts also can't act retrospectively, so they do not, and cannot own your previous content. They also cannot ban you from releasing new material, especially not things like Tweets/Facebook posts, only material that relates to the show directly, again, regardless of terms, contracts cannot control your life to that extent and if they tried to take it to court it wouldn't stand.
As for adapting your image, this means so they can photoshop you onto backgrounds for posters etc. not to make you look bad, as you seem to think, as this clause has clearly defined limits in legal precedent. For example, they cannot photoshop you having sex with a pig and put it on posters, as this would constitute defamation and misleading of the public.
Next, you say you license over your rights to your original perfomance - yes - you LICENSE it, meaning they don't own it, but they can use it, and this is necessary for them to be able to show it legally on television in the UK.
You then say it's mean for them to be able to remove them for any reason they choose, and this is fair and normal in almost every contract, e.g. going to a bar, the management always reserve the right to remove the people they see fit, it's to protect against lawsuits from people who think they were unfairly disqualified, and is a VERY common clause.
As for not appearing online, they mean in terms of interviews, they cannot legally stop your friends/family taking photos of you and posting them online, again, if they tried to ever enforce it in this way it would fail (not that they ever would).
Not being liable for injury unless you can prove it, what is unfair about that? That is quite literally just how Tort Law (lawsuits) works.
As for varying the terms of the contract when a clause becomes unlawful - if they modify the contract you always have to agree to the change, this is again - the law. You can choose to disagree and keep the original contract with the (now) unenforceable clause.
If anyone disagrees, feel free to reply! :)
Johnathan Guy wow that must have taken a LOT of time :)
What's your point, Happy Piggy?
It’s with all TV talent shows sadly. A friend of mine auditioned for the voice and then got in and signed the contract blindly since he was only 16 and didn’t know better. He got moved forward to audition in front of the celebrity judges and no one turned their chair for him. They never even put his audition on TV and yet he is now stuck with a seven year contract. He didn’t know about that much about the contract though and decided to work hard for two years to go audition for the x-factor. He auditioned and got a yes from all 4 judges but once they learned he had a contract with the voice they dropped him. He couldn’t get any jobs in the music industry or do anything. Couldn’t even upload his own music online. It’s absolutely horrible.
Ugh thats sad
Ugh yo what the actual fuck that’s sick
If he’s a minor (under 18 years) that contract is void.
TheCamProject not if it also required a guardians signature for applicants under 18
Ugh Sadly probably many have already done that. Blindly signing a contract. There is some things you would never do. And one of them is to sign a contract blindly.
Who else is here because of recommendation?
@@ObVoid Same.
Bumholes mmmm
@@ObVoid mhmmm
Yes idk whyy...
Me
Moral of the story. Do not sign anything without an IP lawyer to look at it first.
Hadriex nobody is forcing them to go on the show, they want to be famous and this is the cost.
Invictus Dominatus erm no idioy
The contract will have been offered on a 'take it or leave it' basis and are highly likely to be non-negotiable. Contestants aren't forced to enter the contract, so it ultimately falls onto the contestant whether or not they wish to sign their life away.
This contract is 100% non-negotiable. The contestants have absolutely zero to offer Cowell before they are made famous by the show, and he controls whether they become famous.
I had one of these contracts for the Bulgarian Music Idol (I have never signed it tho) and you are not allowed to show this contract to a lawyer or anyone else. Also you are not allowed to mention the show or the producers anywhere, otherwise you'll be charged 100 000 €
If its legal for them to basically say "You cant sue us for anything but what we tell you you can sue for" then there is something seriously wrong with the legal system
Technically and unfortunately no there is not. Because a company like SiCo has the authority to impose such power and terms on their slaves, Oh ....sorry no contestants. They are not breaching any law or even Human Rights legislation in the UK. So therefore as these Terms and Conditions only affect what the person's Virtual, Internet Life consists of there are no legal repercussions or ramifications for the cooperation. Its is disgusting that people are basically allowed to treated this way. But wait....does this not affect most areas of industry as a whole.....such as the video game industry (Specifically in the United States) and the shady practices which transpire there. (Oh yes...EA)
It doesn't work that way, phone contracts are a popular example used by lawyers to demonstrate this point. Even if you consent to a term in the contract that term still has to follow the rules of contract common law and statute
Therefore if you agree to a term that doesn't follow contract law, your consent cannot be used to justify this
A lot of terms in mobile phone contracts are not authoritative but they are put in anyway. In reality the phone company couldn't enforce these terms even if they wanted to
You can only demand terms within the legal system. You can't supersede nor have any terms and conditions that are statutorially(?) illegal i.e. The Company allows you to sell cocaine at half street value.
Exodus There is no common law any more, that has all been superseded with Statutes. There are no contracts in common law other than natural law and common sense.
That's how contracts work, and why it's important to actually read them before signing.
The contract in short:
They can do literally WHATEVER they want, they own everything you've ever ever made, you can't do ANYTHING unless they say so, you don't get any money for your work unless they say so, and you can't tell ANYONE about how they treat you.
Vile.
@@johnjones4074 some are actually forced
Just another corporate money only focused company manipulating contestants and rigging the competition so that the most relevant acts win, its not talent, but popularity that's wins. Absolutely all acts who have won the show or competed at a high stage in the show are utterly average at best at what they do, since they're not judged by professionals in that particular skill/art they are performing in. Acts because of this fact dont last long mostly in their careers after winning. But the company owned by Cowell, syco or whoever it is will always drop their act after they dont hit targets made for them, I would presume a certain unrealistic amount of revenue must be earned by the act to keep them on, people are treated like dirt and cast away for the winner of the subsequent year, how many xfactor winners get dropped after about a year lol, having a competition each and every year is completely unfair on the winners aa fhe limelight is taken away from them almost immediately after they win, a career every year is ruined. Yet i will never understand the publics desire to support these evil companies and Cowell, oh yeah i forgot, they target kids and young teenagers who generally do not have enough life experience to understand about money and manipulation, and this dark side of talent shows in general.
Yeah, it’s not like dragons den where the contestants are literally business professionals, the people who watch it are normies.
CTV was Wise to cancel Canadian Idol because more than likely they didn’t want to waste money on Simon Cowell’s Garbage 🗑 Shows, Idol AGT BGT X Factor are Rigged Fixed and a Scam. The Voice is no better.
Exactly
Remember kids, if you want to be famous, just sell your soul to the devil. At least he lets you keep your music.
Daan Wilmer lol no he doesnt
Lyse have you met him? 0^0
Daan Wilmer nope, your soul is worth more than your materialistic music. I’ll keep my soul forever.
I genuinely think that a contract with the devil might be a better alternative than this shit.
I mean, you could become the best human being at everything in the entire world with the devil's contract.
With this bloke's, you're guaranteed to have no profitable online life whatsoever, nor are you gonna have any privacy, and you're probably still gonna go to hell.
I'd say fuck it and ask the devil for the superpower to create my own superpowers at a moment's notice and control them however i see fit.
I wouldn't even care that i'd have sold my sole to fucking Satan himself, as i've already got several luxury class tickets to hell anyways. :/
Why not sell your soul to the devil to gain immortality
No wonder one of the girls from fifth harmony answered the question from an audience member "what advice would you give to an aspiring artist?" by saying "read your contracts".
This should be on trending...
Its on my recommended so I guess..
*HeLlO fOlKS WelCoME tO "WhY ThE FrICk Is tHiS In mY REcOmMendEd PaRt nInE"*
It was for me
It is, well for me at least...😅
Yes!
UA-cam can only get so much clickbait on there
as disgusting as this is, sadly its not uncommon. i know some contracts also seeps into your personal life, say, you arent allowed to date anyone so long as youre under that company
its inhumane
Aaryn Bastian like the kpop industry smh
Then don't sign.
Just walk away tho? inform your family and friends and make them expose the company. Just put it all over internet.
@@suizidesamurai3353 if it as easy as you say i will
*DISGUSTANG*
Baine LMAO
SHET
Baine lol
*DisGOSTING*
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R.I.P X I have his eye as my pic.
Quite ironic that Syco is pronounced as Psycho
futuristicpoets clever
the other way around
futuristicpoets ur pfp made me die lmaoooo
Not ironic, deliberate.
futuristicpoets
Harry Potter.
Almost makes me glad that I don't have a scrap of talent!
Don't say that! There are plenty of real entertainment schools designed to teach and foster your talent and further your career. Syco(and many other) makes reality TV shows and are a insult to what art is.
But you don't need talent, it's all hard work and joy in what you do. If you enjoy doing it, you'll get good at it. No one is born a singer or musician. never too late to start.
If you look up real competitions, they are night and day with this "talent show." There is barely any talking between judges and performer. No backstory, how beautiful you are don't matter. You speak with your performance. There's a proper dress code, etiquette and skill level required. You are judged based on technical standards(not just insults like Simon) ranging from execution, style, tempo etc.
There's proper constructive feedback and winning or losing is not that big of a deal since anyone that make it pass the preliminaries already have the skills to have a future ahead of them. What it does is challenging you, a learning experience and helps you grow as a performer.
Mate he was joking stop writing books
Brian Hawes I don't believe in natural talent. Some people might catch on to things faster but anybody can do most things (unless you're mentally or physically disabled obviously) you just have to try.
Brian Hawes it's fine neither do most of the contestants that get through
True
Poor one direction
Moonlight Liz now their hiatus is more understandable
and people hated zayn for leaving
@1 1 they were on this show
@1 1 they are still under s*co
@1 1 one direction as a band is still under syco. Though as solo artists they are signed off to different labels( Harry-columbia , Zayn-RCA and Louis-syco/arista...still under different branches of Sony). But they have one common contract. They did not allow Louis to get out of syco. And he was probably forced to judge the x-factor 2018.
I'm sure selling soul to devil would be more fair... like... literally...
Legit thou
What's the difference?
Difference: Devil will take your soul and give you something else(examples: power, money, love). Brits got talent will take every single bit of your previous and future live away from you, making you basically a slave.
Muutrix de AngelPlayer yeah but then you also burn in hell for like 1000 years after your contract with the devil is up so.....have fun with that i guess.
But it is a deal with the devil
being homeless sounds better than this.... dont understand how parents exploit their child and essentially enslave them under these contracts for the trade of a quick buck to them.
I bet the dont read the terms and conditions,they sign that immediately l
I dont think even the parents get anything.
I don't think most parents think like that, they're just deluded into making their kid's dream come true. Most either don't read the contract or get sweet talked into doing it, hooked in by their good faith.
they are excited that their kid has talent and somebody gives them a stage. and while they are still hapy that their kid got accepted they get that paperwork. not per mail but of course in persoin whicxh makes them feel even more special and even more overexcitzed. the kid feels special and happy too the "salesman" talksd with the kids and the parents "all that´s left is to sign here" and only people working in business know how disgusting business is, nobody really understands the legal euphermisms anyway and the kid is like "come on daddy, sign" and daddy without reading and understanding it signs it. it´s evben more disgusting with kids than how for instance i pressurized customers to taking contracts in the past. It´s the kid doing the job for the guy from sico and the kid has WAY more emotional leverage
.when i sold phone contracts for kids i went like "don´t y
Lab Rox They cant on their own, but if a parent consents to the contract, it will be legally binded to them. It's really sad but true.
The worst contract I can imagine a human can sign
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You lack imagination.
ToaKoran I don't think a combine would do it. Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
My contract with Satan was easier
Yeah? Go do something else with your life then. No one is forcing you to do it. If you're smart, you will make a lot of money from this. Or, like I said, go do something else. And like another commentor said, people in Dubai working like actual ( if not literal) slaves, PROBABLY have it a little worse.
"That British guy who insults people for money"
*Do You Mean, Gordon Ramsey?*
Lmao
Nah, he's a good chef
Hes a reasonable ahole that has changed a lot of lives for the better
Thought he was Scottish. He said he was in one of kids cooking shows.
Robby Medina well yeah, but scotland is a part of great britain so
Poor grace vanderwall
literally what i was thinking the entire time
ANTOMACI who is
tazz IS FANGASMIC omg thought i was the only one😂😂😂
ANTOMACI To be fair, that was America’s Got Talent, not Britain.
Yourmomdotcom012 • simon cow still owns it
It is like something out of the Hunger Games .....
Sup Makaveli ;)
haa haaaaaaaaaaa
C Ash at least in Hunger Games you get to keep your soul
More like black mirror season one episode 2
Why does the Hunger Games remind me of the chess club at my new high school. The chess club is a dog eat dog competition. I wish I was on the team but it sounds hard.
Some countries have an "unfair contract law" which would tear that terrible contract to shreds if someone tried to use it there.
Ben Wilson you are right, though in my limited understanding, civil law is much more complicated than criminal law, which makes it way too costly for someone to who is not a multi-billionaire company to take said company to court. Also so much hassle. And unlike the contestants, they can pay for really good lawyers who'd spin the story any way they like. I'm only vaguely aware of a few cases when an individual sued such a big company, and only a couple of successful ones. But then again, I never looked into this properly
Anyone who asks you to sign a NDA unless it's to do with child protection or state secrets should be treated with extreme suspicion.
There are certain times when ethically you'd keep your mouth shut such as actors in a series saying something that will spoil the surprise the series has lined up for its viewers. But then, it should only need a verbal agreement not to say anything, not a contract.
The problem with contract law is that it goes through a civil court and people like Simon Cowell have enough money to pay for top lawyers that you can only dream about affording. The problem is seperating the two terms "Legal" and "Ethical" and judging on the basis of the latter rather than the former. Civil judges really need to start considering the ethical grounds and using that as a guideline since the law is really made in the courtroom based on precedents set by judges. It only needs one case to go in the contestants favour on ethical grounds and that contract would be destined for the bin.
Ben Wilson all countries should have that
All countries would have something like that but it costs big bucks to take anything to court and you may not even win in the end.
Tryst46, there are many good reasons for having an NDA. Corporate secrets for instance. You don't want people having access to the source code for your bank's website, and your bank doesn't want its employees sharing inside information with other banks either. If you are an employer trying to hire people and you have a test that you use to eliminate people before first round interviews, you don't want that test and its answers being made publicly available, that defeats the purpose of the test.
That being said, an NDA that prevents people from talking about this contract sure is dubious. The only reason you'd want an NDA to prevent people from reading a contract that they would be forced to sign at some point is because you know that people won't be interested if they know they have to sign the contract beforehand.
Korean label/music companies: *sees this*
Ha, hold my beer son.
(For real, though. Y'all talking bout "slavery" - y'all haven't seen NOTHING yet if you don't know how k-pop companies work. Whole different ballgame. Takes the meaning of slavery to a new level. After all, they're not called manufactured idols for no reason... Talk about having no free will. Smh. It's so sad. They're basically contractually obliged not to have a social life, see their families when they want, eat when they want, or even breach the contract since they're monitored 24/7. It's awful and there's basically no way out since their money and lives are constantly being controlled by their management. That's why you've got so many cases of hospitalization due to dieting/stress/exhaustion and dozens of cases of suicide in the past 10 years due to pressure.)
frecklesandwine exactly
frecklesandwine
How is this even happening :(
frecklesandwine no one asked.
M e y a
Well, no one asked anyone anything in this comment section, but does that mean no one can reply? Sure their post was a little off topic, but it still discusses corruption of ideas and intellectual property, and goes beyond that into the scope of dangerously controlling institutions, made, just like BGT, to prey on the talent of others.
It’s very relevant.
"Takes the meaning of slavery to a new level" past that of any actual slaves? Those poor kpop stars 😂😂😂
I feel an urge to post this to the official facebook of britain's got talent
Yess do it
Mr Hyde omfg yes do it
Its done 19:41 in uk atm lets see how long will it take to be taken down, Its in the comment section of their newest video. How I love freedom of speech
Holy S*it! xD it got removed in like 3 minutes
That's fucking hilarious. Well, the war is on. Shall we begin? Let's make sure EVERYONE sees this.
100% exploitative.
ONLY 100%?
Dildo
not explotitive. dont like it? dont sign it. nobody is forcing anyone to sgn it bitch
Well, you can;t just give money to idiots. Thats what the lottery is for
“Let’s just say... I know a guy who knows a guy” 😂😂
Diz funny
Fifi WHO KNOWS A GUY WHO KNOWS A GUY WHO KNOWS A GUY....
who knows this guys COUSIN
Better call saul!
It fell off the back of a truck.
Fifi
Who knows a guy that knows a cousin who knows a pegasus who knows a god who knows a guy who knows a goat...(reference to Percy Jackson Book Series)
A bully from my school who everyone hated went on this show in 2011. He got through to the semi finals and they painted him like a perfect child and. They had all the teachers on there saying he was a golden child and even asked people from my class to go to the news cameras and act like his friends which obviously no-one wanted to do. He got disqualified for something and no-one ever heard from him again, all his social media was down and I never saw him out anywhere.
Pretty sure now he's working behind the tills in an asda or co-op or something like that.
now you said about how they own all their social medias I'm wondering if they found out he was an awful child and so made up a reason to disqualify him and not let him online. I just checked and he still doesn't have social media.
What was his name?
who is he
@Sadie Smith It wasn't
@Sadie Smith I've had a look and he only got to the judges houses not semi finals which is my mistake
@@ATOMiiCChicken uh just tell us who was it if it's someone you dislike.
I like how you are saying Simon Cowell as Si-Co but all I hear is Psycho!
Yellow False haha his company is actually spelt Syco, so it's not far off!
oh wait thats what he means oh lol
Same
I thought he was saying "Psycho" as well.
I use captions and it’s actually psycho so I didn’t even realise
all the dislikes are employees at psycho
or people who know that he is grossly exagerating the situation and that these clauses are there for good reason to protect the company from not getting scammed themselves. Not like he doesn't sign his content away as well...
Syco*, but it seems they are pyscho from this video.
Wow and I thought working for McDonald's was bad.
Fozzy Bear lol same
Fozzy Bear mcdonalization
it is.
Yeah because at least you’re allowed to leave
thevengefulspartan yeah McDonald's is like: don't like it? Well fuck off. Syco: don't like it? Fuck off, oh and by the way, we still own you
This is... disgusting. Thank you for informing people about it.
Get this on trending. Get this on BBC news. Make this known.
lel when bad things like this happen nothing happens. Just wait for their capitalist regime to fall comrade!
Haha xvlad, greed ends suddenly if people destroy capitalism? capitalism, a tool Which has helped them function as a society and even have plenty of leisure time? Greed won’t end but reliable food and needs supplies will, freedom do do what you want to do instead of what the marxists in charge make you do will.The fallacious thinking of capitalism as anything other than a tool will. The belief in the communist propaganda of our fake Facebook groups and fake media will.
It’s like if I said I want to be free and then I quit my job for freedom, but now I can’t provide for myself so I have to beg. It would be unimaginably disasterous if people were useful idiots enough to destroy capitalism....then when things are like that we’llsee greed like we’ve never seen before.
Unlikely to happen seeing as this is 90% of contracts. Why do you think no news outlet covers this? It’s the norm
It is known actually... by some people, that's how the entertainment industry works, this is just "normal".
Alex W+ I'm afraid you're quite innocent.
(Read this in a Scottish accent) DISCUSTING
Katak
WHO TOOK A SHET IN THE TOILET AND DIDENT FLUSH!!!!
Essence
WELL IT WUS FECKIN ONE OF Y'US
Katak DISKOSTEN
Vince Rutherford *didney
LMAO MY FAV VINE
Black mirror vibes.
Debbie Shang literally the 2nd episode of Black Mirror. 15 million credits
its so funny to me because that episode aired straight after the x factor final on channel 4.
Lonercs you mean merits lol but yeah
thought of the same thing
I was thinking the same
Full rights to your "image"...
And this is how they get away with making some people absolute Butt-Monkeys, constantly showing them in the most humiliating or unflattering light for the world to laugh at - the person concerned is contractually forbidden to complain about it. Their "brand" is "laughable fuckwit" or "horrible ranty person" to contrast the brand of "Most wonderful person", "Most talented". After all, how can we know how great the person being built up is if we don't have someone else to tear down?
It's an unhealthy, depraved dynamic.
Other "Reality TV" is just as bad, so the content of this contract is most likely indicative of what's in the contracts for the likes of Survivor Island, The Bachelor, Big Brother etc. If they want to paint you as the villain by focusing on the times you lost your rag or said something that can be taken out of context, then you are the villain - because every show *needs* a villain and how can we advertise our show effectively without putting a clip or picture of someone up with "Is this UK's/USA's/The World's MOST HATED man/woman/child/amoeba?"
How do they get away with this? The public can't get enough of shit like this and people are so hungry for fame or for the money/contracts they perceive they might get if they win that there's vast amounts of money to be made and no shortage of victims. Passed the initial audition for this (or any other "Reality" programme and don't want to sign the contract because it's demeaning? Fuck off, then, we've got plenty of victims, I mean _people_ who are prepared to sign.
The show is rigged and uses downright deceptive editing and obligatory "choices" to spin out the conflict, suspense etc? Who cares? Plenty of people will tune in to watch it, anyway - even though a 3-year-old would wonder why the "nasty person" that everyone is hating has made it through to the semi-final and not been kicked/"voted" off already.
They're nothing but fucking meat-mills; this contract - while truly disgusting - is not (unfortunately) surprising.
This needs to go viral.
Why? This won't happen to anyone who fucking READS what he signs.
dXb Why? Well, why’d you think? To have something done about this madness, of course! You’d be surprised how much power the media has.
not everyone can understand a contract like this
Its shows with the sob stories
sunsbookishgamesx I swear I see you in every comment section 😂
Metal Guitar Covers same. Lmao past 3 videos i saw her
Btw this comment made no damn sense
Young City Bandit this makes total sense wym tf
I don’t understand the comment💀💀
This is legal slavery!
Exactly!
Because people willingly signing it. The contract is put in front of you. You have the chance to read and understand it. If you still sign this shit, its your fault.
Exactly! That's why it's legal slavery instead of illegal slavery.
pdes _:
Yeah!
yeahhh, like these artists who signed gave consent to be enslaved
This is why when the producer of the show rang me up (nice enough guy, he had managed Sigur Ros and a few other successful artists in the past) and asked me if I wanted to go on the show and go straight to the TV round I politely told him what I thought of the show. I'm still unsigned, still trying to get somewhere with my music/make a living via it. But I have no regrets.
Tim Fletcher bollox
@@SamKennedy61004 Why would I make this up on a youtube comment. Want me to show you the emails from the producer of the show at the time Stephen Jones?
"He's that British guy on TV that insults people for money."
That doesn't exactly narrow it down...
Pretentious Elizabeth it's the exact same for the shithole called america got talent
Aren't all British guys on TV known for insulting people
You know what's funny mate?
I'm actually from England.
So don't assume shit about me, thanks.
IronEmperor well I'm from England and a nathnolist so I don't give a shit about others opinions
Good for you? I never even showed my opinion, you just assumed I was american for no apparent reason even though, to be honest, i'd rather fucking shoot myself than be American
britains got slaves
edit: sorry no offense to anyone its a joke
Now THATS what it should be called lol
@Daniel von Strangle I think there are books on the subject
Ha ha
+TheSwedishJew
Contracts like this do not even resemble slavery. Don't dramatize.
@@Gyvulys Pipe down ya touchy slag. Bet you're fun at parties.
The name Syco seems to make sense now
Colin Molony hahah... SiCo or "Physco"
InfiniteChikens pfft. Syckoh
Aimee I doubt anyone will get that reference besides you and me
"And you still get the fruit back!"
its "phsycho"
20 minutes in 2 words..... legal slavery
Wow! I actually applied for Britain's got talent about 6 years ago, I'm so glad I didn't go ahead with it. I'm happy uploading my music on here for my 195 subscribers lol
FastLine V good for you. don’t sell yourself. i’d rather have a small audience and be free than have an entire country at my disposal but be a puppet.
My friend went on but he did covers so I think he's safe
Cheeky promo but I’ll check your stuff out anyways 😂😂
It won't make you famous though 😥 I have 151 subscribers and am still a nobody
FastLine V wow! Ur music is really good! Didn't expect that lol
Wow this is awful.
I mean the contract, not the video.
You know he edited it bcz everyone gave him hate bcz they thought he was criticising the video.but tru...it is awful ;)
I mean the contract,not the video.
I know right, this is just really terrible.
I mean the contract, not my collection of pogs.
Disgusting...
I mean the contract, not what I do in my free time.
@@0100-r6d LOL
yep, they are trying to find desperate people with actual talent that they can basically own forever, but if you look at people like Susan Boyle who wouldnt even use social media it prob works fine for them. Its all about control and protection.
PoppinBubbles Susan Album party lmao
PoppinBubbles I read that too Bwahahahahhaha
Its all about business
F for the people who appeared on Britain's got Slaves
I knew something was fishy about these shows. I stopped watching X-Factor about 2 years ago
Rochelle I stoped watching in 2012 lol
I can't believe anyone is still watching Jeremy Kyle "reality" tv and stuff like this. A watch is a vote for more garbage. I've stopped watching tv totally now and I've never been happier. I watched Gintama, Death Note (anime etc. and the philosophy and interesting stories they make in Japan is a lot better (takes a bit to get going but really , it's smart ). I also used UA-cam to learn Crochet (from Happyberry's Mandala - copying and pausing her actions to follow till I got it) and knitting and it's fantastic! Just check out the awesome yarns you can get like Qing Fibre, Hedgehog Fibres (and it's free patterns), Walkcollection, Scheepjes list of bloggers with free little i.e mug mat/phone case patterns.. I'm making the free Sophies Universe pattern. Ravelry has a community of patterns/ spotlights/ etc. too.
I stopped watching it after it went to the same format as BGT, much prefered the early series with 3 judges sat in a private room
I think these shows used to better, but now they're just trash.
why did you ever even start? It always has been pure garbage.
I guess they called their company name psycho for a good reason. It really suits them.
it’s called SyCo actually so
Madionette 3245
Wooosh
r/wooosh
Scammer: Mwuhahahaha I’m the best at giving people the worst deal possible
Britain’s got talent: Hold ma beer
I was wondering why Zoe Alexander only quite recently spoke out about her experience so long after it had ruined her life: she legally couldn't until recently. That's so f*cked.
I wrote a comment about how she was nuts for saiyng that she didn't want to be pink and they made her sing pink. Then I saw her video next. Oops :)
The music industry has ripped off every artist for decades. People like Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Nina Simone, The Beatles, Prince.....they all got mercilessly robbed.
Prince was the first artist to escape his agency, and release his music through the internet. The very first.
People get excited, they're desperate, they think a big company will be their friend and they'll make a fortune enjoying themselves.
But the reality is that the industry will work you to death, take all of your money and then drop you.
To succeed you need to be 95% business and 5% music.
why do you think prince told them all to fuck off ... he sold all his music from his own website and made more cash doing that than he ever did with a record contract .. i shit you not he made millions
George Michael just refused to write any music for about 5 years. He done the bare minimum he needed to then Sat it out.
thesouthernlord it's not that you can't get rich with the music industry, just that they will make it so you do what they say and make them richer than you.
they, like the stones, got screwed over by their first contract. they got bought out shortly after, and then negociated what has become known as "the best deal in the music industry", for the musicians. they were fully in control of their musical output and products, iirc the only thing the record company got was 5% and the responsibility to make them tour. that label was friggin' desperate, and in the end didn't even regret they got shafted it was such a boom to business.
now, sabbath and slipknot? both bad contracts (the first ones at least), and sabbath had a corrupt manager on top of it. they were almost always bankrupt. despite slipknot's first two albums going multi-platinum, all 9 of them were heavily in debt rather than millionaires. goes to show that a nose for business beats musical creativity.
Craig Nevermind I see why they killed Prince off.
If you signed the contract, then walked through a live news broadcast shot, would you get sued?
Great video, terrible terrible contract
no, cos youre not filming nor releasing it. however, any money that came of it, wouldnt end up yours.
Luci Venom Nope, doesn't work that way
+Brandon Burslie You wanna actually back up your claim?
N'gasta Kvakis yes, this video is my proof😂😂😂
I thought you were responding to Luci but I guess you were just responding to the OP... Either way, your comment is half-arsed and tells me nothing if I didn't watch the video, whereas Luci's does. *cryinglaughemojicryinglaughemojicryinglaughemoji*
It's definitely what they call a "slave contract" and they are all too common. Metal Blade records signed Metallica, The Goo Goo Dolls and my others to pretty much the same type of contract. Both Metallica and Goo Goo Dolls had to go to court to show how unfair the contract was and won their cases. Aerosmith's contract with their first manager was also a "slave Contract" but was so air tight that the only way Aerosmith was able to get out of that contract was to still give their former manager 25% of everything the band made in future revenues. Its still going on to this day, over 40 yrs later. Aerosmith can release an album, it can make $10 million dollars and their former agent will STILL get $2.5 million.
I know America's Got Talent HAD a similar contract but has since altered it. I had a friend who appeared on one of the first seasons and he told me how one sided the contract was, almost to the point of being illegal. Even though he signed it and appeared, he still wound up bringing in a legal team to alter it. (My friend has money and performs for fun, he doesnt need the cash but wanted the exposer for his act )
Another reason they had to alter their contract was because of Terry Fator , a ventriloquist who won season 2 of AGT. Back then the winner received $1 million dollars (paid out over 20 years which equates to a lil over $4k a month) and a show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Terry Fator was such a HUGE hit in Las Vegas that another casino, the Mirage, offered him $25 million AND his own theater in their casino. A new agreement was reached because there was no way in HELL the Mirage casino is going to make that kind of investment and have AGT collect all the merchandising rights from T-Shirts, Ticket Sales, Plush toys of Terry's characters etc.
Believe it or not, its not just the contestants who are subjugated to a strict contract with AGT. We just lost Nick Cannon, the host of AGT. Nick has his hands in a lot of different types of careers including stand up comedy. He made a joke (thats wasnt even close to being racist by ANY standard but the top brass at NBC TV Studio that airs AGT thought it was) and told him he was a "brand representative" and as such needed to be more careful in what he says. That was when Nick quit.
I get it, these shows do put you on a world wide stage with a much larger audience than you may ever reach on your own so some compensation is expected but at what point is enough enough?
damn
Don't sign contracts you don't want to follow.
This post has been up for 8 months and the only 3 responses to this comment are within an hour of each other. Thanks youtube for putting this video in my recommended list.
Terry Salava I think it is because it got posted on Reddit and did well.
I came to this video because it was in my recommended list and had no idea that it was on Reddit. Still though 5 comments within an hour on an 8 month old post.
Rich people using other peoples talents for their own profit.
Welcome to Britains got talent......
Welcome to capitalism. Rich people exploiting other people's work for profit is what the entire global economy is based on.
@@_chew_ and marxism is the same except it is the"people" doing it
very wize, meme man
*succ*
I’m a model, dancer and blogger and I was considering auditioning for the show but now I’m never going to audition. When I signed my contracts for modelling I read every single word to make sure nothing sketchy was there and then asked my parents to do the same before signing. But some people just can’t be bothered and sadly end up signing their life away all to some words printed on a paper. Yes it’s disgusting what BGT are doing.
Irregulargaming yo did you pay before signing for the Modelling company you work for? I'm hoping to model someday 6'3
If you have to pay before you usually get your money back after your first job(I did)but just beware of scams.
Irregulargaming can you please hook me up?
Irregulargaming very true.
No wonder ppl who go to bgt don't return to youtube or social media
Phillip green did
And Gatis Candis
and Connie Talbot
Tape face boy did too
idk if this counts but puddles did as well
Why isn’t this trending?
Memespake - One word: Money.
Ethulwulf Sauce actually it's gotten 882k in a couple months. Not popular enough
Because it’s bs
xV WRAITH Vx wrong just not popular enough
It is now
As a content creator, this is a horrifying living nightmare. I wish it were illegal and now feel sick at having enjoyed the auditions so much.
suddenly I have a black mirror flashback, anyone watched the episode about talent show?
OH MY GOD YES honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the industry ends up that way one of these days
That’s what I thought whilst watching the whole video, when watching that episode you think it’s insane but that’s actually what happening anyway
what episode is it. don't think I've watched it
axelc96 Season 1 Episode 2 - 15 Million Merits
it's just to creepy when I think about it. I went to auditions in a different talent show, and I just skimmed through it, I'm glad I didn't pass the pre rounds, funny thing is, they choose (the best) and (the worst) those in between, that have somewhat talent, but not that special don't get far. so it's creepy they use the worst people just for views and to humiliate them. they handed out stickers before we entered the building (red and green) waay before contact signing, red means bad dressed or funny , green is best dressed. they use that for humiliation as well.
What you are saying is very interesting. Now i can understand that being a celebrity is not that good.
.
if you are an independent celebrity then it's all good. Just stay away from sketchy contracts if you can.
Unfortunately there will always be an army of naive teens & young adults lining outside the auditions.
What does celebrity mean any more? It seems to be something to help dumb down society, where talentless celebs are over hyped, to dumb down people to think they should want to be like that. People are told to admire trash worse than most people
La1 completely wrong, since you think society is made up of 13 year old girls. If you're trash, then you'll admire a trashy celebrity, if you are not, then you won't admire that celebrity, simple as that. No one is *told* to do anything like you imply. You seem to have a really closed and narrow view of the world.
rikki kingston I'm sorry but thinking that all that celebrities do is dumb people down is a very close minded statement. Any statement that generalizes a social group without taking into factor all the other possibilities that that group could have is in fact being closed minded. Celebrities don't just include pop stars. Celebrities could include Poets, scientists, scholars, etc... Sure, peer pressure plays into this, but the most manipulable minds are the young ones, and that's why I jokingly said that La1 thinks society is made up of 13 year olds. I'm sorry pal, but you didn't change my mind, and I still stand with what I said.
It's funny that SiCo sounds exactly like psycho. Coincidence? I don't think so.
And scykoh ( the best video game glitch channel )
I thought he was actually saying that, not SiCo
A contract designed to own your soul. Which is what happens with every winner.
Patrick, why was your grandma arrested?
Oh, yeah, she took a picture of me and posted it on Facebook.
Probably more like, "Patrick, why did BGT sue you and your grandma for 11 million dollars and have you enslaved at Simon Cowell's right hand?"
"Shh, I can't tell you without _his_ permission!"
This is why there are so many minors or dumb people on these shows
Why is this legally valid? Why is there no such thing as ethics in the legal system?
Legally valid? Of course it is, you gave consent to it. Nobody forced your signature, you did it in a clear state of mind. Ethics only apply to very specific things like Racial Discrimination, or selling an individual against their will into slavery. Im being a bit over dramatic, but trying to make a point that contracts have ways of dodging every law while still feeling illegal or shady. It takes huge people with lawyers to fight it, but nobody can because they signed a NDA agreement, which prevents them from telling anyone. Then they also signed this contract which prevents them from getting another Lawyer because they must be EXCLUSIVE to what the company has.
You will have to deal with hefty fines and be brave along with 100 other people who are willing to risk their lives to get this contract changed.
Show business afterall.
Well, technically, there is honor among thieves... just very rare.
It is not legally binding/valid. This guy (from the video) does not cover equity and trusts, unfair terms and other quite specific areas of law. This guy does not know what he is talking about.
Additionally, You cannot have an implied or express term in a contract which restricts your statutory rights (there are very, very specific exclusions which don't apply here). Statutory rights such as the Human Rights ((act)which incorporates EU law into our UK legal system). Either the lawyers are quite dumb, this bloke is quite dumb or its all made up.
Patryk Barwinski name one right that is being violated
A clear-headed adult deciding to sign this contract is one thing. Adults signing away their small children's lives is a whole other level. I don't think a 10 year old let alone a 5 year old really understand the repercussions of signing such a contract. Furthermore, what about people who have a disability that limits their ability to understand this contract? What legal guardian in his/her right mind would sign or aid in signing such a document?!
I think that may be why Simon didn’t want kids on the shows for a while and they rarely keep them on unless they’ve got really good talent now days
Thanks for that video. I thought a few times about going on any of these shows for fun, but I think I´ll keep on doing music on YT. Fighting with copyright is better than having my content completely taken away from me.
It maybe time consuming. Always read, and understand contracts before signing.
"Our british guy who insults people for money" *Gordon Ramsay joins the game
Lmao
Zonose someone failed geography 😉
Gordon Ramsay is Scottish.
At least Gordon is honest and straight to the point. Simon is just a spiteful little bitch that gets kicks out of making people feel useless
Milky707 thnx
It’s literally a reality show, I expect nothing less from it sadly, I was just at the live show of America’s got talent and literally everythingggg is planned. I went on a Wednesday and the acts sucked so I went on Saturday and all the acts were great and they pressed the golden buzzer. As the act was performing, I looked over to the side of the stage and a crew member was nonchalantly holding a white board telling a judge to push the gold (mainly cuz of the boys inspiring story) so the new judge pushed it