I suspect that it's less whether someone will risk a Mark Burnett lawsuit (I'm sure there'd be no shortage of people happy to pay the fine), as whether someone actually has access to the rushes.
I suspect that NBC only ever took delivery of a finished "tape" of the show, and that after editing was completed, footage was stored away in some vault somewhere. It would have been sensitive at the time not least because of the gameshow element - nobody wanting leaks until the episodes had aired - but also because if Trump truly did say shocking things that were cut, Burnett's team would have been aware of the potential damage even without him embarking on a political campaign. It would have damaged the show for one thing, potentially affecting employment prospects of those who worked on the show. Indeed I wonder if the footage even *exists* any longer. It's not hard to imagine that hard drives or tapes have been wiped. As soon as Trump stood, I'd imagine that Burnett would either have doubled down on security of the footage, or expunged it altogether if he is, as reported, a Trump supporter. It will probably all come down to whether an employee somewhere along the line, took a copy or something incendiary and squirreled it away somewhere. Adam On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: > There is now a gofundme campaign to raise $5 million to cover the No Leak > penalty in employmemt contacts that Burnett had with his employees. I > guess there's hope that somebody will take that risk. > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2016, 11:09 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Have we discussed here the twitter thread where somebody asked Mark Cuban >> to pay the $5 M penalty that any employee would have to pay for making >> footage available where Trump uses the N-word in Apprentice outtakes? >> Apparently Burnett is a big Trump supporter and has vowed to hold everyone >> accountable to the confidentiality clause he made them sign. >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> Adam Bowie, to Kevin M and Tom Wolper, in part: >> >> The Apprentice footage belongs to Mark Burnett right? Shouldn't he right >> now be shopping NBC an Apprentice Outtakes special? And yes, I realise that >> must mean some acknowledgement of how Trump behaved at the time. >> >> >> Burnett has been fighting efforts >> <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/footage-of-trumps-off-air-apprentice-talk-will-be-locked-away/> >> to release any Trump outtakes (CBS News link, but largely from Aypee). >> >> B >> >> -- >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
