Tennessee Code Title 50. Employer and Employee § 50-5-302

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) A minor is engaged in the work of content creation if the following criteria are met at any time during the previous twelve-month period:

(1) At least thirty percent (30%) of a content creator's compensated video content produced within a thirty-day period included the likeness, name, or photograph of the minor. Content percentage is measured by the percentage of time the likeness, name, or photograph of the minor or if more than one (1) minor regularly appears in the content creator's content, any of the minors, visually appears or is the subject of an oral narrative in a video segment as compared to the total length of the segment;

(2) The number of views received per video segment on an online platform met the platform's threshold for generating compensation or the content creator received actual compensation for video content equal to or greater than ten cents (10¢) per view; and

(3) The content creator received actual compensation for video content of at least fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) in the prior twelve-month period.

(b) A minor who is fourteen (14) years of age or older, but under eighteen (18) years of age, may produce, create, and publish the minor's own video content and must receive one hundred percent (100%) of the proceeds of the minor's compensation for the minor's own content creation.

(c) A minor who appears incidentally in a video that is published by a content creator is not engaged in the work of content creation.

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