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Originally posted by charly
But they do not supply 2257 with the set, you have to go cap in hand to them.
They also deal with lots of Russian and Ukrainian photographers. Your call.
Aaron, I will tell you about the time I met a broker in Vegas last year. He had 20 of my sets and to date had sent me $100. We met in his penthouse suite.
His excuse for not selling more was he did not have enough of my sets.
On what he made on my stuff if that was the average he got he could not afford the Greyhound bus fare to Vegas.
Did he shave? Who knows.
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Charly, yes that was my point, Web-Legal is one of the companies I checked out. Webmasters buy content through them from countries of dubious ethics and morals. From what i saw it basically looked like they'd take biz from anybody from anywhere who signed a piece of paper declaring they own the content and supplied ID's. Well anybody who ever bought fake ID as a teenager knows how easy that is.
Nobody can be 100% positive that the ID provided by a model is legit. Good fakes are not that hard to come by.
I forget the details about the Traci Lords case, but she must have shot for literally hundreds of video companies and photographers, many i'm sure with great reputations, but she got by all of them for years with some kind of fake ID that everybody accepted as real.
His long diatribe about why he doesn't supply photocopies of model ID's was very strange to me, i didn't buy his argument.
As for brokers shaving sales on photographers, i've seen nothing on the two broker sites I've poked around that would give the photographer any assurance that it can't be done or isn't being done.
The Net is a vast place, photographers/videographers are usually way in the background, the easiest people to fuck over.