posted by Lawyer Robert Barnes re: Crowder

The now infamous Cancel Culture Clause in the Crowder contract proposal from Daily Wire. If Crowder got a strike, he lost 25% of the contract's value forever. If Crowder was kicked off the #BigTech platforms (Youtube, Facebook, Apple, Spotify), he lost an additional 60% of the contract's value forever. (FYI: the contract didn't reverse those penalties if Crowder was reinstated.) If Crowder didn't produce an episode, he owed Daily Wire another $100K per episode (with over 750 episodes required under the 4-year contract, that amounts to over $75M). Additionally, the contract gave Daily Wire exclusive monopoly on all Crowder content of all kinds for the entire length of the contract (which Daily Wire could unilaterally make into a 6 year contract). Daily Wire made all $ from ads, subscribers, merch, and any Crowder content, with no royalty or revenue sharing to Crowder. Daily Wire key 100% of all Crowder derived revenue, including subscriptions (which Crowder estimated to be over $140M over the contract's 4 year term, by itself), merch, memberships, ad revenue, etc. Crowder contractually could not produce any content that all the $ didn't go directly to Daily Wire. In other words, Daily Wire's Cancel Culture Clause in the Crowder contract could make Crowder pay Daily Wire for the privilege of taking all of Crowder's content and all the profits from his content.