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Originally posted by CosmicKitten
Good point. Glad someone finally brings this up.
I don't think people realize when you buy content, you are just purchasing a LICENSE to use that content. A license which stipulates how many domains you can even use the content on.
Its not your content, you just buy the license to use it.
Unless you purchase EXCLUSIVE content, then you can do what you like with the content. But paying $35 for a set of content and then whoring it out through hosted galleries is just bad all around.
But most webmasters are cheap, and don't care, so they are doing this hosted gallery thing.
Its really a bummer cause I have seen some really nice sets of content that I have purchased license for being used in hosted galleries which SUCKS because some other loser is whoring out these pics and the $$$ I spent on licensing them for a few domains is now going down the drain. Lowering the value of the images.
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Even with exclusive content, generally people pay more for exclusive content AND specialized licensing for affiliate use, do they not? Exclusive content licenses sometimes DO have a time limit for exclusivity (such as one year, this is generally worked out beforehand) . Sometimes this content isn't used for affiliate use either. More often than not the content used for affiliate comes with a lifetime license. This costs more.
Although, there is always a problem when people purchase content and use them in hosted galleries without the content provider knowing. This can and does happen. It always pays to check around
