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Originally posted by Ketadream
I usualy keep my mouth shut...but this and a few other issues have realy frosted my balls so to speak.
I see new content providers all the time, I usualy check them out as sort of a market research as the simple fact is I am a new content provider, and I've found some VERY distrubing shit...
- Total ignorance of 2257 law, what is required what is not required, how to protect your models and yet still stay protected. Alot of the ones I've checked out recently dont even have any form of 2257 information.
- Misquoting of 2257 law by armchair lawers who seem to have enough sence to start a business but not hire an attorney to explain it to them..So they shoot from the hip and are usualy dead wrong.
- Foreign content providers who leave there purchasers on a very thin wire...
Lack of ethics
- My favorite so far a content provider who spams me at least 2-5 times a week has been advertising an obvious bullshit scam in his newletter its obvious this guy is associated with the scam in some manner one of those stormpayl 7.50 to this person and then you get put in a random rotation script that everytime someone does a paypal to that fund it picks a random person and sends them cash...
Oh joy you can also pay more money to get better position on the randomizer...WHAT THE FUCK!!!! Common does anyone left in this busness have ethics. I would love to think that this guy was some random east european nation but no this chowderhead is from the USA, Orlando no less...
Would you buy from a guy who's advertising is out to fuck you over????
And lets not even get into producers who dont know a fucking lighting rig or how to use a light meeter that realy frosts my balls. I'm a video guy I have others shoot my still work, but even in video I know the in's and outs of how to light a scene and due to compression you usualy have to overlight it. Dark shakey movies crappy sound (the best is when the girl makes a high pitched noise and due to the compression and an over at 0db you get this hiss sound that is sure to wake up the wife in the other room.
And these guys out sell me on a daily basis...
FUCK!!!!
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Yep, I definitely feel where you're coming from. Those of us who DO retain proper legal counsel continually fighting with those who figure they have it all figured out. The problem is too, that there can also be several interpretations of some of these laws, so even legal counsel is not infallible. The 2257 laws were insituted more with videos and whatnot in mind, most of them were put in place before the internet.. so that leaves people scrambling to figure out obligations. One of the big problems is end users attempting to take on TOO much responsibility without being aware of the legal ramifications.. I've seen too many newbies putting THEMSELVES as the custodian of records, when all they have is altered copies of docs. Sorry, but that is NOT going to save you in a pinch. And giving out UNALTERED copies to these people is unnessessary and dangerous too. (The only time I would consider this is if someone were to purchase the content EXCLUSIVELY, and that is NOT general distribution. It's for everyone's protection). The custodian of records and the secondary producers generally KNOW their job, and if they're doing it right, they will have your back should an issue arise. Keeping an altered copy of the id around never huts anyone, for sure, but as far as legalities go, it's best to let the people who are legally obligated to do so, do their jobs. If you can't trust your content provider to be there for you, my question is, why are you buying from them?