Legal Updates

Are Participants in Skits and Prank Videos entitled to Royalties?

Published

10 months ago

July 7, 2023

Skitmakers and Pranksters create content to entertain and provoke. From funny street interviews and practical jokes to risqué kiss or grab challenges and dangerous pranks, these videos wouldn’t be entertaining without the involvement of 3rd Party Subjects.

If these (consenting and sometimes non-consenting) participants make the videos go ‘viral’, are they “entitled” to a share of the money when these viral videos are monetized on social media?

What form of compensation, if any, should such participants be entitled to?
You be the judge.

Don’t miss our live Debate for and against the proposition of whether Participants are also entitled to a share of the proceeds on Friday, 7th July 2023, at 4pm.