> Edit: it’s also nice to not have ethical concerns with your choice of employer.
Did you not happen across the predatory soliciting of new content? In that by attending a Netflix "screening event" you give Netflix a right to use your film in perpetuity, royalty free?
9.2: ... By making available your Proposal via the Platform, if you are a Shortlisted Entrant you automatically grant Netflix and UNESCO a free license to use the Proposal and/or pitch (if you participate in the Final Round) in connection with marketing and promotional purposes, behind the scenes footage, and airing your final film on Netflix in relation to the Competition.
This suggests that the only thing Netflix has to do is put your film under the "competition entry" category of their app and they can broadcast it for free. Not if you "win" their competition and are paid, but if you are on the short list of consideration for being a finalist.
9.3 ... you accept that by entering into the Competition, if you are selected as a Shortlisted Entrant, but are not a selected as a Finalist, you are agreeing all rights to the content of your Proposal and pitch will be held in abeyance for one year ...
11.1. Entrant is bound by confidentiality with respect to this Competition and their participation. Entrant shall not disclose in any way the content of the Proposal, nor disclose the contents of any message or notification Entrant may receive from Netflix, UNESCO, or Dalberg in furtherance of this Competition. Entrant acknowledges and agrees that the aforementioned obligation of confidentiality includes but is not limited to interviews, the internet, print publications or any social networking sites or similar (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Tik Tok etc.). Entrant’s obligations under this Section 11.1 shall end in accordance with the second sentence of Section 8.2.
So if your pitch is considered, Netflix has it locked up for a year without paying you anything. Furthermore, you can't market it to anyone else or even market it yourself due to the confidentiality clause.
These pitch scam events aren't new, here's another one following the "Netflix model" to lock up the rights to scripts without paying for them.
> The prospect of giving up rights to a script for a year and a half — with no pay — horrified several entrants. But, says Green, “We’ve revised that. It was an admitted overlook on our end. We’ve emailed the finalists to say we’ll negotiate a new option agreement for the screenplays we want to move forward with.” Even so, contestants still have to sign the free option agreement and will have to take him at his word that it will change.
There was one this past year I saw posted on the company's Twitter account which suggested that all entries would grant Netflix rights to the content in perpetuity but it took quite a beating in terms of angry tweets in response, and I can't find it so I presume the company deleted the tweets about it.
There are also reports that Netflix "blacklists" films which they offered on, but the owner rejected their offer, in that they force people who license content to them not to buy content from people who have rejected Netflix. This is just a flat out rewrite of the Microsoft tactics from the 80s/90s to kill competition by telling Dell and Gateway to drop competing software.
> But Atkinson came back down to earth when he learned after the festival that suddenly all the prospective buyers of the movie pulled out. He said he was told that Netflix blocks any service deals for movies on the streaming platform after they have turned down Netflix Original deals.
This whole post is basically an exercise in the most easily downvoted post you can make on this forum:
"There are no accidental mom and pop billionaires."
They're all guilty, it's just a matter of degree. How do you know they're guilty? They have the money, and you know their name. If they weren't guilty, someone else would have the money and you would know someone else's name instead.
Did you not happen across the predatory soliciting of new content? In that by attending a Netflix "screening event" you give Netflix a right to use your film in perpetuity, royalty free?