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I haven't gone through the entire thread yet, but in defense of SoBeGirl, I've sat next to him and his girl at a webmaster dinner and he seemed liked a straight shooter, with a lot of ambition and energy, and ideas. I've never seen his studio setup in South Beach, but I've not heard anything bad from other photographers down here in South Florida about him.
I had a studio in LA before so I know the dilema photographers are in by handing out there complete model info. A handful of webmasters are slick willys and will turn around, setup a small content operation and start reselling the stuff.
I had one large collection of chromes I bought once and ending up having 2 other photographers call me when they were in the magazines saying I didn't have a license. Yet I had it in black and white along with the signed model releases, and double ID pics. So 3 photographers say they own the rights. Two were lying or somebody fucked somebody over there.
This is why content creators get so paranoid about handing out the works to webmasterss. It basically is like handing over the printing plates at the Federal Reserve. Once you have it all you can print your own dough.
Just my 2 cents for what its worth on this thread. I understand the webmasters dilema as well in light of all the stringent regs out there. Its a tough call.
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