Stephano contract situation - Page 119

Stephano would've been "one of the highest paid SC2 players in the world" at Complexity and they ensured that he would get "global travel" including to Korea.

On September 20 2011 10:22 skyrunner wrote:
haha everyone stop saying stephano is a kid. he's 18...

if he was like 14 i'd understand

On September 20 2011 10:20 ReaperX wrote:
Hopefully compLexity takes legal action and quires Stephano because I think Stephano wll get more exposure to foreign tournaments (outside of EU)

On September 20 2011 09:52 Callosum wrote:


You would file suit in the US, Texas in this case. If you win, you take your judgment to France and file it with a French court to have it enforced as if it were a French judgment. The case itself will then take place in the US with US laws applying, but the judgment will be enforced in France.

On September 20 2011 10:29 Apom wrote:
1. This "grace period" is not mandatory. It has to be explicitly written in the employment contract, or it doesn't exist. It would be perfectly valid, under French law, for Stephano to sign an employment contract without it. However, in practice I do not know any long-term employment contract that does not have such a provision, because :

2. What you call "backing out" is not limited to the employee. It is equally possible for the employer to back out during this "grace period", and in practice it is the more common occurence (the reason for this is that dismissing an employee after this point is fairly difficult in French law, hence some employers will abuse the grace period to repeatedly hire people for one day less than the grace period).

3. There is actually something similar in British law. However, it is much easier to dismiss employees in British law than in French law, so this disposition is almost never seen across the Channel (which kind of proves that it is actually more attractive to companies than to workers, and not merely the product of *cough* French communism).

4. While you personnally did not use those terms, I have often seen terms such as "breach", "break" or "void" the contract to describe using the "grace period" provision. All those terms are inadequate. A more adequate term is "terminate". The contract is no longer applicable, but it was applicable up to that point, and all its obligations were held (by both parties : employee had to work, employer had to pay). You do not breach, or break, or void anything when you terminate your WoW subscription, and this is exactly the same.

On September 20 2011 02:49 Merfyn wrote:
From the other thread:


what on earth is going down?!

4) Yesterday Stephano contacted coL.CatZ and our COO Jason Bass to inform them he had made his final decision and told CatZ "Don't worry I won't change my mind again." He then executed a legally binding contract with our organization. He seemed genuinely excited to be a part of our organization and joined our private Skype channel to chat with the team before going to bed.

Complexity are "seriously consider(ing) legal action in this matter"

On September 20 2011 10:43 DiaBoLuS wrote:


sounds like you talk to your player a lot before making announcements and stuff... shouldnt you be in contact every day???

On September 20 2011 10:45 Skrillex wrote:

I was reading comments on the coL articles and many peoples said that by French law, People can bail out of any contract withing 30 days since the contract was signed.
I don't know if they can make any legal action . :/

On September 20 2011 10:46 blade55555 wrote:


mil/stephano are ignoring anything sent by complexity any e-mails anything. So hard to contact someone who just ignores you.

On September 20 2011 10:44 Arkless wrote:



Let's see papers, with a signature. I doubt very much a verbal contract over the internet cross continent is considered legal anywhere. (Not saying this like " YOU OWE US PAPER WITH SIGNATURE") More or less I am confused about what exactly "executing a legally binding contract" means specifically. That is a statement that is very open to interpretation. Honor is another thing entirely.

Sorry if this was answered earlier in the thread

On September 20 2011 10:44 Arkless wrote:



Let's see papers, with a signature. I doubt very much a verbal contract over the internet cross continent is considered legal anywhere. (Not saying this like " YOU OWE US PAPER WITH SIGNATURE") More or less I am confused about what exactly "executing a legally binding contract" means specifically. That is a statement that is very open to interpretation. Honor is another thing entirely.

Sorry if this was answered earlier in the thread