Glamour Dolls failed to comply with
those obligations when it engaged in a
failed online advertising campaign on
Kickstarter, using LFI, Lisa Frank's brand
without LFI's approval and then refused to
pay royalties due when LFI properly
terminated the party's contracts as a
result of Glamour Dolls' misconduct.
Wait a minute. She didn't know about the
Kickstarter? Hello my friend, I will
honestly tell you that until late last
night, I did not think that I was filming
a video about Lisa Frank and Glamour
Dolls today. I actually had a full video
planned about preservative-free cosmetics
and how freaking ridiculous and dangerous
preservative-free cosmetics are. But then
I got a very interesting comment from a
person named "Fake Goth Girl." Okay. I get
a link. The link is to a court document
that I had not previously had access to.
This document is Lisa Frank's point of
view. It is her counter suit. This is Lisa
Frank saying "Glamour Dolls is the bad
guy, not me. I didn't do anything wrong -
they're the ones that did something
wrong." So in today's video, I want to go
over Lisa's side of things - what she says
in the court documents is the reason why
she pulled out of her contract with
Glamour Dolls that left backers of the
Kickstarter out all of their money - over
$400,000 of their money, including my
money. My $75? Gone. If you have no idea
what I'm talking about, that's because
this is Part 2. I strongly strongly
suggest you please watch Part 1 of this.
It will be linked below. It will be up in
a card. It is the background for this
video - this video might not make sense
if you don't watch that one first. If you
don't feel like you have time for an hour
and a half long video, what you can do is
you can scrub through the timestamps, kind
of get the idea of what it is. You can
also play it on 1.5 speed if you want to.
And I will tell you that the average
amount of watch time on that video for a
single view is about 40 minutes. That has
literally never happened on my channel.
This is a story that I think you want to
hear and and that I think that you are
going to be engaged in if you choose to.
That being said, we are starting at Part
2. I'm assuming at this point that you
have seen that video and that you have
that background knowledge. And also,
side note, I mentioned this at the end of
the video, but there's probably about 40
comments mentioning Bailey Sarian's video
on Lisa Frank, based on the Jezebel
article that we talked about in the first
part of this. Yes, I am fully aware of
Bailey's video. I have met Bailey. I have
collaborated with Bailey. Bailey did a
fantastic job on that video. That video is
more about Lisa Frank as a person, so if
you want even more context for the story,
I highly recommend you go watch Bailey's
video as well. What we're gonna do with
this part is I'm actually gonna put Lisa
Frank's lawsuit on the side of me so if
you are fluent in Legalese, you can follow
along and see the match up of what I'm
saying. Surprisingly, a lot of is is
pretty clear cut and there isn't a ton of
lawyer language in this that was difficult
to understand. So if you would like to
read along, it is going to be next to me
over here. Here we go. So this is what
Lisa says. This is her side of things.
This is all about the deal in 2016, the
original deal that she had. Lisa says they
struck the deal in June of 2016 that would
end on December 31st of 2017 - that
matches up with Glamour Dolls' side, so
I'm assuming there's legal contracts, so
there's evidence of this. So Glamour Dolls
in that original contract, agreed to pay
Lisa Frank 15% royalty on the net sales
of the products made under the deal, with
a minimum payment of $100,000 for the
duration of the agreement, including a
$25,000 advance. Glamour Dolls promised to
do their best, to make, sell, promote, and
market the products to get as many sales
as possible, always focusing on high
quality. Now this part is very very
important because this is really the root
of why everything went wrong. They had to
get Lisa Frank's approval on literally
everything, from the design concepts to
the artwork, to the molds for production,
to the final product samples before going
into production. Lisa Frank had the right
to approve or reject the elements and
Glamour Dolls had to follow Lisa Frank's
directions on quality standards. Now
listen to this because this is part of the
reason why things were taking so long. So,
for designs, Glamour Dolls had to wait up
to 10 business days - that's about two
weeks or so - for Lisa Frank to approve
or reject anything that they submitted to
her. If Lisa didn't respond in time,
Glamour Dolls was allowed to ask after
those 10 business days, "Hey, what's going
on? I need a full description of why you
reject this or I need an approval." But
this is the kicker! Because even after
approval, and remember, this is according
to Lisa herself,