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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
i didnt even think Doc was serious.
no one is licensing out the million dollar spreads you see in magazines. Theres no way magazines pay 100s of thousands of dollars, and then some porn company licenses them?
lol
Even when I first started in this biz, the company i worked for was PAYING photographers to go out and shoot this content for them. But the company owned the rights. You cant just take paparazii photos that arent yours,... ive worked for companies who shot that type of stuff. Photographers were paid to go out and get celeb shots,... but the content then became the companies, big difference between taking pics from net and making a site.
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Someone has to own the rights, up the chain some place - someone has the rights to them. And that person is lic them out to someone else, who brokers it down more. If you pay millions for photos, put them in a mag - wouldn't you monetize online too?
Companies / People like this make far more money lic the content out than they do hording it for the shitty magazine they own. Actually, this is huge f'in business.
No way in hell Mainstream news papers that purchase these, studios, pops, mags... And celeb sites not get sued - Come on, they would jump at that opportunity, and if I remember correct Mr. Skin has been sued by Celebs or someone for stuff on his site, and he is still here.
Something isn't right - just because 'we don't see the answer' doesn't mean a solution isn't provided. I'm not saying every bit of it is legal, I don't know personally, I find celeb crap to be boring. But if you think someone is scanning these magazines they get and dumping that online, and making a profit from it, and they aren't getting sued... that's crazy talk.
That's just how I see it.. and no, you wouldn't get a link to this. This would totally be who you know and how big you are.