Hi all,

I have been on here for over 13 years and have accumulated quite a lot of custom messy videos from sellers on fiverr over the past few years (probably around 200+ videos). I have seen other UMD sellers setting up stores selling videos from some of the same fiverr sellers.

I was wondering how easy it was to set up a UMD store and if it was okay to sell on the custom videos that I have had created on fiverr over the years. The fiverr conditions seem to be that once the video has been made and purchased it then belongs to the person that purchased the video. I don't have any model release forms or anything like that, as at the time it was just a custom video request on fiverr.

Hopefully this will all be okay, as there are some great messy videos that would be good to share. it could also then help me fund new messy videos being made in the future.

Thanks

Unfortunately you need not only model releases, but a picture of the model holding their photo ID too - for the record keeping requirements MM is bound to. All producers need to be able to prove a models age easily in case of inquiry.

That's a shame, as I liked the sound of such a large collection of customs and was wondering if any of them were with models we might know...it would've been like finding an album of previously unreleased material from your favourite band. Darn.

He could always try and go back to gain the necessary proof and releases etc

and be sure to get them with each future video purchase then build up a stock that way

Thanks, I will try that for the future ones and see if i can do requests for the previous ones. Though some were three or four years ago and haven't got profiles any more, unfortunatley.

I'm thinking you will find it difficult to get copyright to most customs even if you paid for them. You will probably find that the price goes up considerably if the talent thinks you want to become a producer and resell their work.

Copyright is inviolate and without any other WRITTEN contractual agreements in place, belongs exclusively to the person holding the camera. That's US law and is pretty much the same in any civilized country. Unless you SPECIFICALLY have a signed contract stating that the copyright for the video has been assigned to you permanently and in perpetuity, you do not have any rights to copy, trade, sell, or redistribute in any way.

In a small production shop, the cameraperson is the copyright owner by default. In a larger, more legal-minded operation, a cameraperson would generally be operating on a work-for-hire contract stipulation that assigns copyright to the production house. These type of contracts have to be written and vetted by lawyers or they can be picked apart in a courtroom.

As mentioned by others, the UMD and all other store operators require that you are in possession of a signed model release and complete 2257-compliant information for every person in the video.