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Every industry goes corporate eventually. The music industry years ago was very ramshackle, particularly the touring side of things, but it ended up being run and organised like Pepsi or Coke or like a large computer firm. The porn industry in the US, as I understand it is run just like any other business, porn sets nowadays even have catering companies supplying meals, where as years ago people had to 'brown bag it' - namely get a pizza delivered or go out and get a McDonalds for everyone to eat (I remember seeing the famous pornstar Ginger Lynn taking about this).

I know little about the UK porn industry but it seems like common sense that larger companies, that have proper film sets, many people working behind the scenes etc, would likely have royalty deals with their performers. I was not thinking that that may be the case with someone who was hired to film a scene in a bedroom in a backstreet in Slough where the thing would be called 'amateur' at best, and obviously just cash-in-hand would be paid.

Of course another problem is, that even if a company does guarantee to pay you royalties for the foreseeable future, this is all hunky-dory, unless they go bankrupt at some point, in which case .....your fucked! Some will simply liquidate 1 company after they've transferred the assets to a new one.....and your still fucked.

Some companies will "Cream", that is to say, through clever accounting, show in your statement a figure that is a lot less than the real amount owed. This is rife in the music industry. In fact some record companies insist on software tweaks in their accounting programmes to ensure they can do this easily.

So my advice is beware!

Or stick to that age old premise: "NO MONEY NO HONEY!"

I remember a program about phone sexlines where one of the blokes would phone up and describe how he was jacking off to a picture of Debee Ashby, everytime he shot his coco he would say "She's getting absolutely no royalties for that. None whatsoever"

I believe that answers your question.