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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
If, as you say Rochard - he's promoting an affiliate's site using pics by permission - why would he comply with a DMCA takedown notice as he states above?
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Do you not understand anything of how our industry works?
Again, it's very simple. He has two options here. He either takes down the content and walks away from it, or he spends the next six months and potential legal fees (have to involve an attorney at some point) trying to determine who legally owns the rights to a picture or video. It's just not worth it. It's not that anyone has done anything wrong, it's just that an affiliate has no way to verify or prove who owns a picture and it's not worth it.
Best case scenario the affiliate contacts the program, and if they are lucky the program responds with a model release form that proves.... Almost nothing. A model release form proves that someone shot the model and has rights to use pictures or video, but you aren't sure for which pictures or which videos, most likely the content owner is the photographer and not the program itself, and you don't know if these rights have been resold or given to someone else.
It's just not worth the effort to fight such things.