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Originally Posted by fitzmulti
That reply is crazy. Especially when you would take into account your affiliates, etc. If a site is even doing "so-so", I would not take it down, if I had shot all the content, paid the model for her work, and had a ton of affiliates linking to it and promoting it.
Even with "a rich boyfriend". The best way to handle this is, to remind the girl that she'd signed releases, gotten paid, and "you can't go back" and erase history. In the "good ol days" when the photos would get printed in magazines after a couple of months...do you REALLY think some adult magazine would just say "Oh sure, honey buns, we'll just halt the presses because you got a boyfriend during the last 3 weeks!"?
NOT!
I 100% agree with Nina's response of "NO"!
Fitz
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We have a few simple rules that we have used for the last 10 years.
1. A model is NEVER shot the first visit to the studio/office.
2. She is given the model release the first time we meet her and told to read it and ask any questions about it before she ever steps foot in the office or studio again. I have heard of cases where the model release did not stand up in court because it was 2 pages long and the model was given 5 minutes to read it and sign it.
3. We have another sheet of paper that the model must sign that is written in plain english, not model release legalese, that explains that the images/video will NEVER go away. It explains that due to the nature of the medium (the internet) that even if an image is taken down an hour after it is put up, it is still out there and always will be.
We have only taken down a girls pictures one time. She wasnt a solo girl site, she was on a site with 800 other girls, so it was no big deal. She purchased the images back from us for what we paid her initially.