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Originally posted by Shoplifter
I can't believe you got away with the Fast Times logo etc. You're lucky its only Ibill complaining and not Paramount suing you.
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Hah, no, I don't run celebticket.com, that's a trafficcash site. I switched my index over to a sponsor because... well, I can't fucking process credit cards right now. Real site is at
http://www.celebshop.com/fuckyouibillindex.html
In any event, I'll use the rest of this post to discuss the realities of running a celebrity site.
1) Paramount, Maxim, or virtually every other movie house or magazine publisher (aside from Playboy and P-10) do not police the net for celebrity sites. I haven't heard of one recorded case of any of those companies going after celebrity sites for posting scans/vidcaps etc.
2) Individual celebrities, or those who enlisted in Cybertrackers (Alyssa Milano's mom's company) sometimes request that you take down pictures of them via email, and threaten legal action if you do not. Basically it's a cease-and-decist letter, and so long as you take the shit down, there are no problems. I've gone through this with about 20 different celebrities.
3) You have to understand, doing this is not illegal per-se in the criminal sense - you're not going to go to jail for it. Thus, the only thing they can really do is sue you to recover civil damages for copyright infringement. Let's be honest, we all know how much lawyers cost (I happen to be one), no company is going to pay a law firm tens of thousands of dollars to recover basically no money from a small-time fuck like me. See #2, which is all they do.
As I said though, I don't want this to be a friggen moral/legal debate, I'm looking for options here.