This week I predicted: “Porn lawyers will be quite busy over the next couple of weeks. I particularly see legal battles over the ownership of some websites.” We’ve got two cases so far; one involving Exxxotico Expo for possible trademark infringement www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=49152 and this one:
from www.miaminewtimes.com – We have a fascination with the mundane, work-a-day reality of the porn industry. It’s strange to think of being in porn as a job like any other, where you sign boring contracts and get health benefits, and if you excel at your task other firms might head-hunt you and before you know it, there’s a lawsuit over your performances, which really just means your pumping penis.
Shaun “Shawn” Rees, known to masturbators everywhere as the Milfhunter, is currently being sued by his former Fort Lauderdale-based employer, Don’t Ask LLC– great name– for breaking contract in 2008 by hunting MILFs for Brickell porn giant Reality Kings.
Rees, who lives in Pompano Beach, signed a contract in January 2008 with Don’t Ask that would pay him a monthly royalties advance of $15,000 in return for “his performances as an on-screen personality” in the production of 52 videos over the span of seven years. (Also as part of the contract, Rees would pay Don’t Ask 15% of his earnings for “management of his career”.)
Yes, we find it amazing that he’s getting paid like a Major League relief pitcher in 1999 for having sex. But we also don’t know if we’d want to have our on-camera sex schedule mapped out until 2015. What if we, like, found Jesus or something?
From the lawsuit:
As a result of Plaintiff services, Rees has become a know performer in the Adult Entertainment Industry and as a result, products containing his services have enhanced value, creating a franchise of films in which Rees is the starring actor.
Which is why it stings, bro, that Rees took his Milfhunter series to Reality Kings. Don’t Ask filed suit against Rees and RK Netmedia, his new employer’s parent company, in December 2010.
RK Netmedia responded by filing contracts Rees signed with them, which show that they’re paying him $6,500 bi-weekly (with room for royalty negotiations) and also contain something of a smoking gun: a release signed by Rees, Don’t Ask CEO Victor Noppe, RK production partner LLL Advertising’s president Mike Imber– “Icey” Mike, Kimbo Slice’s manager– and RK CEO Robert Garner.
Anyway, clearly this suit is clearly still in its fluffing stages. The real steamy legal action is yet to come.