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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
Celeb sites are legal
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the biggest issue you will find with celeb sites are the celebs pissed they are on a porn site and try to take the content down or threaten to sue for damages under rights of publicity or rights of unfair competition, where they are saying the site is unfairly profiting on their likeness
this happens more with younger celebs than older ones.
but back to the point, ive never heard of an owner of many of the pics displayed on a celeb site to ask for the removal of the content and i think it may be hard to do that.
the pics displayed on those sites are generally found *everywhere*, a million other places, and its a difficult argument to the court when you "selectively enforce" the unlicensed use of your content.
i think generally with trademark/copywrite law, you have to do all or nothing. you have to show that you went after infringers from the start otherwise you tend to lose the right to restrict people from using it license-free, legal concept called latches