Release forms. Why?

[Jeff Kitchiguine]

Hi all.

Thanks a lot for your answers. It was a big question for me and I didn’t want to scare people by signing something. Nowadays, it’s pretty hard to trust people (both ways I mean).

Thanks

Jeff

[David Roth weiss]

[Jeff Smith] “I didn’t want to scare people by signing something.”

Jeff,

You need to tell your “victims” that they should be scared away by people who don’t ask them to sign a release.

And don’t ever start a project without a written agreement either. I recently failed to follow my own advice on that one, on a just tiny little job with a very near and dear client; and sure enough, it bit me. So, no job is too small, no client to good, to work without signed paper.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Rafael Amador]

From now on I will carry with me an “ink stamp pad” so my victims can let their thumbs prints in our agreement.
rafael
PS: I think some people have been pulling all this story of the rights too much.
They created problems where they wasn’t no one.

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