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Originally posted by cherrylula
What is the origin of APIC? Who is behind APIC??? Membership dues? They want membership dues to join their association? Is this a UNION?
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It's all rather hazy, but there is a guy that heads up APIC, but I forget his name at the moment. They have their roots centered in the whole Alyssa Milano contraversy from 4 years ago. Her mom went on a rampage to have her daughter's illegally used pics removed from the net. A bunch of rather noteworthy models also joined the crusade, one of them being miss Alley Baggett. I remember hearing about quite a few webmasters being sued back then, and rightfully so.
These days APIC is there also as a service to content producers, who can buy a membership there in order to have their content policed and protected, so in that regard APIC is a very valuable service. But there are cases like this one where the webmaster is NOT at fault and has been falsely accused (by some unseen party apparently, APIC probably doesn't act alone in these matters), so the point people are trying to make about giving the webmaster the benefit of the doubt and allowing them to either remove the content or show proof of permission-of-use or ownership is a valid one.