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The article goes on to state, several hundred titles listed on their website are bogus!
We researched for the producers, directors, cast and crew list worldwide, but could not
find them. This claim is ridiculous. Many of the films we carry are aired on PBS and a
good portion of our films are listed on IMDB. Freedom's Fury is one of our best selling
titles and is very well known. Order it today! Ah, shameless promotion& . We are also
working out a way to upload all of our titles meta data to IMDB so filmmakers don't have
to.
>Response: One title of 2000 apparently aired on PBS, a claim that is simply untrue.
Note: Derek Sivers, Who founded CD Baby and then created the fraudulent website,
FilmBaby.com, bribed Wikipedia with a "donation" of $40,000. Any other person creating
such an article about oneself would be removed from Wikipedia under its 'speedy
deletion' clause. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Sivers
Since Sivers "donated" to Wikipedia the "article is within the scope of WikiProject
Biography." Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has cashed in millions from people and
companies like this one, with more than questionable existence, but is already facing
charges by the SEC and FBI for tax evasion and tax fraud.
Another claim that is partially true and easily explained:
The film American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007) retails on
Amazon for $21.99, yet, on Filmbaby for $29.95 (18) Why? Not only is
this abusing the content creator, who gets a minimum of 4% of every
Amazon sale, but one of several examples of how Filmbaby conducts itself.
The reason film retails for a higher price than amazon is due to the filmmaker setting the
price on our website. Film Baby leaves the retail, download, and wholesale cost of our
films up to the filmmaker in control of the film. Amazon takes about 60% of the sale of
DVDs while Film Baby takes $4 for every DVD sale. The reward for selling American
Drug War on Amazon at $21.99 is around $8.79. The reward if the price was set the
same on Film Baby is 17.99 to the filmmaker.
Getting paid is easy. We cut checks or make payments to your PayPal account weekly if
you so choose. Soon we will be able to make direct deposits to your bank account.
Another strange claim:
if an uniformed consumer makes a purchase (85% of
all smart shoppers will buy the DVD on Amazon, as it is cheaper)
Filmbaby cashes in the full sale price, and then ships out via the
same distributor, used for Amazon.
This may be the most entertaining claim so far. First, it sounds like the writer is steering
consumers towards Amazon even though a majority of our titles are not sold on
Amazon. Second, we handle all of the shipping from our own warehouse in Portland
Oregon. Why would Amazon handle all our shipping for free? How else would we be
able to supposedly cash in on the full price?
>Response: That makes sense, so just go to Amazon and shop there. It's cheaper and
Amazon actually ships out DVDs. Don't buy from an unknown warehouse. Note: several
customers actually received Bootlegs from Filmbaby, that were in the form of
unauthorized, unlabeled cases with no artwork.
This article goes further to claim, we made several purchases from Filmbaby, which
were not
delivered and never credited to the filmmaker's account, artists did not receive any
payment whatsoever. Elliott Watkins, if you exist, it might help to call 877-345-6222 if
you'd like to place an order. OR go to filmbaby.com and place an order yourself.
>Response: Baker & McKenzie has fully document all instances of Fraud committed by
Filmbaby. Not once, but repeatedly have filmmakers not received their proper royalties
from Filmbaby.
Untrue claim #376!
As with the problems our surveyed independent filmmakers experienced
was not only a lack of support and customer service, but also a lack
of transparency when it comes to distribution and proper accounting of
sales.
As i mentioned before, call 877-345-6222 between 9am to 5pm pacific time. When you
use your Film Baby account, you can monitor your sales from your filmmaker account.
Just log in, click on »My Account', and bask in all of your sales glory.
>Response: As documented by Baker & McKenzie the sales that occurred were never
credited to the filmmaker's account. Filmbaby simply bilked them out of their rightful
sales.
What is maddening about this article or e-book is its lack of credibility. There is no
mention of class action suits against Film Baby on any of the law firms websites
mentioned in the article. There is no information to be found about the many articles
cited. AND there is no investigation by the SEC, FBI, or the IFCC as far as we know.
You would think that if we were being sued or investigated we would know by now.
None of these agencies have contacted Film Baby.
>Response: Baker & McKenzie has filed all claims properly in court and the case is now
in Oregon court. All investigations are ongoing and imminent.
Don't believe the hype. So far we haven't been able to verify who wrote this article. I'm
also very curious about who these unsatisfied filmmakers are. If anyone knows which
filmmakers this article is referring to please let me know. Furthermore, the other
websites mentioned are probably not as bad as this work of fiction indicates.
>Response: If you are cocerned about your intellectual property and film you made,
contact Baker & McKenzie.
Baker & McKenzie
International Executive Offices
One Prudential Plaza, Suite 2500
Chicago, Illinois 60601, USA
Tel: +1 312 861 8800
Fax: +1 312 861 8823
http://www.bakernet.com
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