Problems with Hyde Park Productions studio

[gaybucks_chip]

I suppose it's a company's perogative to do what they want (within the confines of the law.) But, contract or no, I think that if a model were to dispute it, one would have a hard time justifying the right to use content for which the model had not been compensated. And legal or not, from an ethical standpoint, I have a hard time justifying the use of the content, regardless of whether it's for promo use or on a commercial product.

If the model is high or drunk, we send them home, period. We don't pay them, and we certainly don't photograph them.

And, as Seth said, it's those sort of abusive policies that gives the industry a bad reputation. Having sex on camera isn't an easy thing to do, and if a model is making an honest effort to do his best to do a good job, and isn't high or drunk, giving them some compensation goes a long way toward the model feeling good about their experience, which translates to the model saying good things about the studio. But I guess some studios are just too shortsighted to see that.

[deanb]

giving them some compensation goes a long way toward the model feeling good about their experience, which translates to the model saying good things about the studio. But I guess some studios are just too shortsighted to see that.

The thing about this is also, it may start out with "HPP filmed me and released the video without paying" by the time the model has told a few friends (oh, and trust me, they ALWAYS will tell about bad experiences, every producer has heard horror stories about other studios) it ends up after a few friends get the message like this, "my friend did porn, and they put out the video and didn't even pay him."

The studio name starts getting left out of the story, and then you have every producer in the industry paying the price, and we all already have enough stigma on our industry. A few studios fucking it up worse isn't helpful.