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Between the icq's with Dallas and our first drama thread I will try to be factual and cover the issues.
Dallas and I have been speaking about this for days, and the issue did not occur last night. I originally contacted Dallas on Jan 18th, the second when I thought there might possibly be an issue.
The model in question has done work with a few other producers, and already has content up on websites and available on mainstream adult DVDs. The model has a completely unique and amazing look than anything produced with her before.
Once the model casually mentioned that she had shot a 'few' photo sets with Dallas, I contacted Dallas immediately to speak with him about it. I wanted to know what 'a few' meant and what his intentions were with the content. If it was a small amount, then possibly purchsing the content and licensing other content he might have shot with the model that is available elsewhere. Once any issues arise with ANYTHING in our business they are dealt with them immediately.
When I spoke with Dallas, he was upset and said that he was developing an entire site around the same model. He mentioned that we had spoke about the concept early last year for that style of site and that it was HIS. We have spoken about many ideas and concepts, to base a memory off of a last night drinking and brainstorming in Thailand is not in the best interest of anyone. I approached Dallas with all of the different avenues of resolution I could think of; purchasing his content, working together on a site, putting up two sites and selling as a partnership betwen them. I even mentioned selling our content to him.
The main issue comes from Dallas feeling as though it was intentional. Simply put, it is not worth our time, money or energy to spend thousands and thousands to purposely produce a concept or site that someone is already doing.
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