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Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings

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Re: Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings

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Post by l0c0b0x »

petee wrote: post #416
l0c0b0x wrote: post #411

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this opinion only, or actual knowledge or experience? You might be right, in which case I'd agree with you (I have no experience with those details on contract provisions), but again it goes back to being a business decision :).

I should have clarified that its in my own experience, based on some of the non-disclosure stuff I've had to sign. Everything depends on the employer though; they most likely could list it on their resume, but probably not much more than that. My point was more that the show is offering an illusion of exposure, when they'll be lucky if they are even mentioned in the credits. My relative who was in the video game indu…

> My relative who was in the video game industry wasn't even allowed to list their most recent jobs actual employment to their next employer, as another example of strong contract

Wow!

Re: Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings

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dylan604 wrote: post #414
lurkerasdfh8 wrote: post #409

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild#Becoming_a...

None of what you link shows anything about SAG demanding actors to do unpaid work. The second option specifically states that you must provide vouchers and then ulimately proof of paid work on three separate occasions as a background actor. The first option is a no-brainer in that you're getting paid as a lead. The 3rd option of being a member in good standing with another union also has nothing to do with doing unpa…

in practice, this all means: to be able to apply, you have to have worked 3+ times as non union. Which is usually unpaid or paid extremely low.

This is even worse on the side-unions, such as costume, etc.

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Post by munk-a »

lurkerasdfh8 wrote: post #422
dylan604 wrote: post #414

Earlier quoted context omitted.

None of what you link shows anything about SAG demanding actors to do unpaid work. The second option specifically states that you must provide vouchers and then ulimately proof of paid work on three separate occasions as a background actor. The first option is a no-brainer in that you're getting paid as a lead. The 3rd option of being a member in good standing with another union also has nothing to do with doing unpa…

in practice, this all means: to be able to apply, you have to have worked 3+ times as non union. Which is usually unpaid or paid extremely low. This is even worse on the side-unions, such as costume, etc.

In practice there may be shifty individuals specifically exploiting the situation - but it sounds like SAG requires that it members be well compensated and treated fairly and tries to make it easy to approach joining the union from a number of different angles.

If there's exploitation going on here I don't think it's really fair to attribute it to SAG in particular (though I'm not certain if you ever were, your original comment just mentioned the exploitation of hollywood - not specifically that SAG was driving this). Maybe it's more the case that a landscape that's likely to be rife with exploitation (and actors and abstract artists are extremely vulnerable to exploitation as a class of employee due to the strange quality of the value they produce) is actually made a little bit better by SAG ensuring that most actors are getting a fair shake?

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munk-a wrote: post #21

The US continues to support unpaid work in a pretty major way. I think unpaid internships being socially acceptable is one of the roots of this insidious habit. They've been illegal up here in Canada for a while and it hasn't really caused any economic disasters. It'd be a good change to advocate for down there as well. And, honestly, internships aren't free for companies unless there is literally nothing of value be…

Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar.

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