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Originally Posted by **********
Clearly illegal, and the models are being scammed out of serious revenue.
Have you reported it to the billing provider? This can sometimes be faster than reporting it to the host.
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The problem is that they think: That because they can see it free, it is in the public domain. Any performance intended for some profit is copyright. But just like all laws, drug laws would be a good example -- laws don't work in the long run.
I don't think Models are not being scammed out of real revenues, they are being scammed out of their Rights of Publicity see:
Publicity | LII / Legal Information Institute. This is in respect of the recording of "scheduled or paid for performances."
The only way to stop this is to go back to living in caves -- seriously. Before the internet people used vcr camcorders, before that photographs. We would have to go back to painted illustrations ... that won't work.
What would work are new streams of revenue ...
Maybe in a digital world the old concepts of copyright and profit are dead.