The Voice USA Contract is Disgusting.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- It's time to take on The Voice USA contract and expose just how revolting it is. Enjoy, if you can...
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Now somebody send him the voice KIDS contract
boii it’s probably the same but the parents also sign it
Hey! New viewer here..
I just wanted to say that I see some of your fans complaining "whaaaat another one??! We get it, contracts are terrible," and I actually think they're great.
Trust me, you have helped a bunch of people not go on these shows and you have saved them from a life of near indentured servitude.
Thank you for exposing the disgusting corporate greed that hides behind the cheerful plastered smiles of these judges.
Thank you..
This .is. really. disgusting! Signing ALL of your intelectual property over? ALL OF IT? all the books you might've written, every video, every copyright you own? I feel sorry for the kids on this one! They dont know what they're singing themselves into, and the adults dont usually check every single aspect of it. They can screw themselves for life because of one mistake they did when 14. ugh.
It's not likely such a contract would ever hold up in court.
This explains why any talented singers, no matter how heavenly their voices are, even if they won, would vanish from the face of the earth, never to be heard again, if they got into talent show like The Voice or BGE...
Alia Ris what do u mean?
@@whathen2325 They mean we don't hear from them because even if they don't end up on the show or even if they won, they're not allowed to produce anything on their own accord--including social media. Everything basically has to get approved by the company before you do anything and by the time the contract ends, people have lost interest and have moved on.
Noah Purser that’s so sad
@@doodoodunderh3ad722 then why are there such huge stars from the voice?
This is some of the worse case of modern day slavery I’ve ever heard from a television show. This is actually a form of indentured servitude. The term which created slavery in the US. Trust me google indentured servitude and learn what that means guys. Great vid mate you’ve earned a subscriber ;)
Completely Agree!
That's what happens in "glamor" industries. Don't forget though that the men get sex with groupies and the women get an audience of very wealthy men. The tradeoff for fame can be nasty.
This kind of contract makes you literally stay stuck to them until you're name is not "relevant" anymore. Quite sad :/
Quite literally bleedimg people dry amd then throwing them away.
What do you think the worst part of this contract is? For me, giving up legal rights is just too much.
Quick editors note: I don't know why there are random audio volume drops, Premiere Pro was constantly crashing during this edit and I didn't think it was worth the headache of fixing it rather than just dealing with a few seconds of lower audio, I hope you understand
I think its worse than the BGT one. But then again, I know UK law more than US and I know whats standard and "acceptable" in legal terms whilst I do not know what is legally acceptable or standard in US law. By all we know, the signing away all your civil rights (surely that must be against UN's human rights, of which the US has signed up for?) is standard in america in any industry and/or workplace. Who Knows.
All I know is BGT's contract is totally normal...doesn't make it any less disgusting, granted but they have to cover themselves. It is exactly like how you wouldn't want anyone making money out of your content or using social media to be defamatory about you and/or your band's life. Would you? That is what contracts basically all say. Just in case you try it on. And because this is a career prospect, they then say all the things about image etc, as the music industry (and entertainment industry in general) relies heavily on image. That is anything to do with you and/or your opinions. So that is why it wasn't a shock hearing they own everything you ever say on social media. As the world is now, social media is basically everyones diary (why I don't use it).
I'M pretty sure that in Germany this would be 100% illegal. ( I think it is that way: if you sign a contract that says something and a court decides that that what was written their is not right, you have not to obey that even though you signed it because it is illegal. Like when renting an apartment: it is illegal to forbid animals. that sounds good, but is not that practical in real life, but better than beeing someones bitch because you didnt hire a lawyer to read the stuff you sign)
This contract, along with the other 2, seems to breach a few articles of the Human Rights Convention. No sane person would sign this if they took the time to understand all implications.
How do your contacts/friends send you the written form of the contract? Do they have the right to take their contract home? Can they do so before signing it, or do they have to sign it in the presence of the company that owns the show?
You're doing the world a service by looking through these contracts. I figured that a lot of these "reality" shows were shady
Thank you for going through all this. Will make me never go on any of these shows
*_D I S G U S T I N G_*
Ok, for the first 6 mins of this video i was thinking "so what? Sounds like a standard employment type of contract." But the subsequent part of them owning you even if you don't go on the show made me feel a bit uneasy.
Tf is petrol? Do you mean vroom vroom juice?
gasoline.
Wooooosh
Vroom vroom juice? You mean vehicular transportation liquid?
@@dumbbumsc5329 vehicular transportation liquid? You mean engine sauce?
@@Rawwr1ful engine sauce? You mean motoric conveyance beverage?
i wish the rest of these got a million views also tbh
If you don’t like that he’s going over these contracts then don’t watch the video smh people are so stupid and complain about everything. I personally think this is awesome! You are saving people from ruining their lives. Also I think it’s great that you do different contracts... yea the overview is that they all suck and don’t sign them, but going over these contracts allows people to hear the verbiage and legal diction/jargon that is written.. so if they ever get a contract in the future they’ll know what to look for and how it’s masked in different ways. Great job! keep the videos comin!!
The contestants who sing their own songs on the show LOSE ALL RIGHTS TO THOSE SONGS!!!!
Christina grimmie did not………. She was on the show and still released music.
i am no legal expert but i am sure any good lawyer would tear that contract to shreds in court. it is exploitation on the young and naive even adults when we buy a car from the dealer who the hell reads the credit agreement for 3 hours before signing? the part thats says you give up your legal rights i would be shocked if that could be enforced in court it cant be legal.
Watched your BGT vid moments ago and really liked you nerding out on this stuff. This one was great as well. I'm not as trusting or naive as the folks that sign up for these, but I'm amazed at the length and depth (EVEN THROUGH TIME!) these contracts go to tie down the persons intangibles.
I sure love how the general public (specifically on social media) always gets angry at random companies for doing little things that offend them, but I've never seen outrage culture freak the fuck out over shit like this. I don't understand! Anyways, thanks for the breakdown of this contract; very informative.
"And finally, you sign over all of your intellectual property to the producers of the show"
Holy shit, they own your thoughts. Say goodbye to your TH-cam account, ad revenue, twitter feed, instagram, TikTok, whatever. It's theirs now.
That's literally modern day slavery online and beyond, what you "own" is theirs for the taking
Wait I didn’t audition but I digitally did sign the agreement but I don’t plan on auditioning so am I okay since I haven’t submitted any videos or auditioned or been on the voice?
Also, these competition shows use auto tune by producers/editors.
Surprised that there's not more views on this video; this shit's so important for young hopefuls to know before selling all but their soul away to the entertainment industry. Man, fuck that... thank you for making this video, you're helping a lot of people.
This is so disturbing! So you can't even get a lawyer to look over this contract because of non disclosure?! How do they get away with this! How is it legal?! It's insane!
They even have a very large purse to buy their own attorneys to "enforce" whatever the contract says.
This is vile. It’s pretty much going “yes you can take all my rights from me and I will sit here nodding my head”
That's the idea pretty much
These are all actually intersting. Also thats a lot of posters! I only have 1.
Very interesting! I would really love to see you try to apply some of this legal stuff to some celebrities that went through these talent shows and are no longer with their companies that initially signed them because they "went separate ways"... Only hypothetically of course :) Because while this is all very educational for someone like me (who is interested in knowing how this machinery works in real life but has no idea of legal terminology), it all makes sense only in very hypothetical way, I cannot really see it working in real life... Does that make sense? For example, you can take a hypothetical boy band who went on and became successful after the show, but later went different direction (lol). All of this legal stuff makes me think how different the showbiz must work, and we, as mere observers can only see one side of it all. You have the understanding of (or at least you are much closer to understanding) how it truly works behind the closed doors/after the contract is signed. Does that make sense? I would just love to see all of this applied to something I already know from media and have only one-sided knowledge of. In any case, thank you for the video!
Maryhavo1 omg I the whole time he was going through I was thinking about one direction. I always heard stuff about there contract being bad but a lot of the fandom just said those people were crazy. I'd be curious to know if their contract is still in place even after they split
Yeah. I´d really love to know if they -have- to remain silent about some aspects of it or if they just decided that because of professional courtesy. And just recently I read somewhere some stats of how overworked they were (multiple albums and many tours in such short time), so however one may feel about their music or their place in music industry, something obviously wasn´t right. But I am in no way expert in this, probably other celebrities/bands were under similar "slave" contracts, but I just haven´t heard about them and I´d love to know... It should be known, imho.
I can think of one other artist - Rebecca Ferguson, just recently spoke about how the industry (understand: people in it...) f****d her over. I would just really love to know IF it is possible to find out the truth somehow, or if once you sign the contract, you basically sign with the devil and are no longer able to talk about anything.
the contract is the "contract" you have to do w.e it says , its not like after u sign it its all buddy buddy and you can jus kinda follow it a little..lmao w.e it says happens.. hopefully theres some time limit to it, but some of that wording is pretty tricky it sounds like they are trying to stay in your pockets for As LONG as POSSIBLE >_
jess pace That’s exactly the point! Who knows how long the servitude is. 10, 15, 20 years?? Your in a lock dead situation!
I'm guessing with some performers that have enough "value" in a commercial sense that their contact is essentially just sold to another company.
But if they wanted to keep you or no other company was interested in buying your contract I imagine you would be out of luck
I dont know though, that's just how it seems to work from an outside perspective.
Sadly, people will continue to sign these contracts and feed themselves to this machine. All for the so called "chance at fame".
One word..... DISGUSTING!
Thats like 1.4 billion dollars in damages. Well done
Signing this contract is like signing away the right to be protected by the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting slavery. I guess The Voice figures they can get away with this sort of thing as long as they have expensive sociopathic lawyers and/or can bribe the courts. NEVER GET INVOLVED WITH THESE TALENT SHOWS EVER!
Before clicking on this video, I was like, "Please let this be the same guy who did the BGT video . . ." I was not disappointed! XD
I don’t know if anyone knows this but in the early years of The Voice, one of the requirements for the show in the old contract is that you must be willing to move to LA before you audition out of your own pocket. You couldn’t travel to your audition and then go back home to wherever you were from like the other talent reality shows. No you gotta move before your audition in front of the coaches. The reason why I know this is because I looked into of the possibility of auditioning for the show back around 2013 and that requirement is what made me decide to not to audition. I am glad to hear that they changed it because 1.) it was ridiculous and 2.) like not everyone who goes on the show to the coaches auditions gets to the next round so if you move to LA just to audition for the show and no coach turns their chair, you’re done and stuck in LA until your lease for your apartment is up. So again I’m glad that they changed this!
tbh i think it would be cool to do one of these over a kpop contract w a company like jyp or sm
Is this why they say people “sell their soul to the devil” honestly ☠️😭
I would have my own lawyer edit the contract if I ever even considered one of these type of shows.
America s got talent contract
I’m not surprised. Only the desperate and people who don’t read the contract first would sign it.
Some dictatorships had less control over the individual than what this contract demands. Fuck..
Do you guys know whether every the Voice contract is different from country to country or are there only little changes that make the difference really?
The background check is mostly because of the Department of Homeland Security, they say it's to stop terroists, but it's also an underhanded way to see if a person is here lawfully or not, at my job they required a SSN or Birth Certificate, even though i was born in the us and had worked for the company for 15 years before asked.
Shared this, just cause that contract said you may not. Screw them Owning everything you do, write, sing, tweet... Screw that...
This is why there are so many crazy people are on reality shows, cause only crazy people sign contracts like these.
How TF can the voice judges support this, what's wrong with them?
Thank you so much for exposing!
I believe that they get to own your publishing if you write and produce any songs while under contract.
The voice is complete and utter joke this is why we NEVER hear from anything that is good successful on the show !
Pretty much any TV talent show
So if you put out a song a year later, they still own that song? Is this contract permanent? Because that’s incredibly ridiculous.
Curious to see if they put an end date in these contracts or if you just how to fight them in court? Cause that sucks
I seriously doubt that if that is in fact the contract that it would hold up in court. Noncompete clauses are not valid in California, or if they are they have to be "reasonable," and antitrust law would nuke about six other clauses. Please don't forget these people are so desperate to be on television that they consider it a fair trade. Also the male performers get a ton of SEX from groupies, while the females are performing for every rich man in the audience. Don't think for a second that they are exploited. It's just part of the business.
This definitely isn’t true. The one girl from team miley is in the band plush who just got a record deal. I personally know her and the voice has no control over her or anything she does. She stated she had to wait 6 months after the show ended and then she could release music.
Can you debate about some things in the contract ?
OMG!!! This is more of a Contractual Agreement with The demonic!
A deal with the devil you might say
This is like selling ur soul bruh 😭
Oh no, here we go again. Let me guess, the contract is just as terrible as the other one, isn't it?
Kinda my feeling on it. He got one video that hit a million and now all he ever does are these videos
Gabby Hill
I honestly think that it's great that he does these, though. This way, somebody looking to be on one of these shows now has an accessible, understandable resource on the specific show that they are looking at being on.
I think it's great and I hope he always makes them.
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"So most English contracts are based in English law, but this one's based in California state law." - so its Spanglish law. 😉😜
What legal rights exactly dose it say?
Make x factor contract please
Is it just me, or does he sound abit drunk in this video haha 😂
Love all the posters.
But whats up with the Japan Cap ?.
This is why it's called "Selling your soul" no you ain't literally bargaining with Satan but like may as well mate.
Just ask Britney and Lohan
STOOOOOOP.
Are you done with these? I don't mean to sound hateful, but they are all the same. We get it, the contracts are bad.
The winning contestants don’t even win a music recording contract, the show hasn’t had any new music artists. Not Even A 1 hit wonder No Success Stories, Only the Celebrity Judges and Producers are Benefiting from Show.