Should the studios be liable?

[KC]

Should adult film studios or even content producers be held responsible if one or more of their actors contract HIV during a shoot?

Do content producer's model release contracts adequately provide protection from this?

Is it possible for someone to prove they contracted the virus from a specific shoot?

-typo-



Last edited by KC at Apr 16 2004, 08:38 PM

[RawAlex]

KC: What about the individual actor, who chooses to travel to a foreign country, have sex with an untested performer (possibly bareback, I don't know facts so this is SPECULATION) and then returns and works. While I think the studio may have some liability, the performer also has to have half a brain, ya know?

The rules are not tight enough to stop this type of thing. There is nothing to stop performers from testing clean today, going out and having unprotected sex tonight(non-performing, pick someone up in a bar), and then shooting one or two days later... are they clean?

I am not sure the studios can be blamed for reckless behavior of individual actors.

Alex

[KC]

Originally posted by RawAlex@Apr 16 2004, 09:02 PM
I am not sure the studios can be blamed for reckless behavior of individual actors.

True, with some occupations there is definitely an increased health risks...

A Police officer shot in the line of duty
A Firefighter killed in a blaze
A High rise construction work that plunges to their death
A crab fisherman killed at sea...

I'm sure the list goes on and on.. The performer has some responsibility for agreeing to do a high risk job.

I'm wondering (in our litigous society) would a court think a studio is to blame for "unsafe work conditions" for their actors?

If a nurse at a hospital contracts HIV (through no direct fault of her own... Simply doing her job as it was intended), is the hospital liable? I'm not talking about a nurse accidentally pricking herself with an infected needle... imagine if she did her job as intended, but still contracted it at work.

[Paul Markham]

The problem would be in proving the model caught it from a particular shoot. But if you work in a high risk job for the money you take the risk yourself.

However in the US we know they love to sue.

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by KC@Apr 16 2004, 08:37 PM
Should adult film studios or even content producers be held responsible if one or more of their actors contract HIV during a shoot?

Do content producer's model release contracts adequately provide protection from this?

Is it possible for someone to prove they contracted the virus from a specific shoot?

-typo-

yes, they should, and board owners should be liable for the posts too!
;-)))

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Paul Markham@Apr 16 2004, 10:43 PM
The problem would be in proving the model caught it from a particular shoot. But if you work in a high risk job for the money you take the risk yourself.

However in the US we know they love to sue.

I dunno...but I beleive I caught AIDS reading GFY.....
;-)))

[masterp74]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano+Apr 16 2004, 07:59 PM-->