I think Jamie Lynn should have lost her job on the show! These girls on kids TV shows are a moral guide to the children that watch them, i feel it was highly irresponsible of her to get pregnant in the first place, she comes from a weathly family and they should have been doing more to educate her! 16 is far too young to be having a child and she cant been she as moral guideline for the young people that watch her, as little attention should be paid to her as possible and the father should be prosecuted as the law intended.
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NEWSWEEK: How common are these moral and behavioral clauses in the contracts of actors?
Anthony Oncidi: They're quite common. I think that just about every contract with respect to talent tends to have a provision addressing behavior in some way. From a studio's perspective they certainly don't want to be embarrassed so they use them as a preventive measure but also as a way to cut ties with someone.
Are they more common when it comes to child or teenage actors?
I think they may be more prevalent among minors because they can find themselves in all kinds of situations that may be problematic from a production company's standpoint.
How are they written? In terms of language, how specific do these clauses get?
They're fairly generic, and usually identify categories of behavior that would cause embarrassment to that individual or whatever venture they're working on.
So would they include something like "You can't ride a motorcycle"?
Those kinds of restrictions are more insurance-driven. Production companies and studios buy insurance to prevent an accident from destroying the whole production, so that if someone gets injured then it's the insurance carriers that are on the hook. But even so, that's more of a behavioral issue than a moral one.
How vague do these morals clauses tend to be?
Some are more specific than others, but they usually fall along the vague lines of not doing anything that might bring about public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule, or reflecting unfavorably on the network or studio. So yeah, they're pretty vague, but what that allows is the production company or studio to maintain maximum amount of flexibility without having to name all these shenanigans they [might] engage in, which is what any good lawyer would do.
But even when the actor is deemed to have broken the clause, the studio sometimes still chooses to honor the contract, right?
The employer's interest is usually in trying to maintain control of the character, but they certainly have a brand and product to consider.
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