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brocklander · 03-07-2003, 11:51 AM

Say you've been submitting video galleries for a while and are kicking ass. You have hundreds of different galleries up on the various TGP's, the TGP owner's love you, and you are getting sales from both your past and your current galleries. All of a sudden, you find out your content provider has been deceptive and the content you have up there is not legally your's. You know this because you just received a cease and desist letter from the people who really own the content, informing you you have 12 hours to take the content down or else risk litigation.

What would you do in order to preserve the past traffic you have going to your galleries, preserve the relationship you have with the TGP owner's, and appease the true content owner who is threatening to sue you if something isn't done immediately (and won't consider licensing the content to you)?

a) 404/redirect the galleries to a sponsor's tour

b) trade out the content with content you do own the license for

c) ???

I don't have time to sue the original content provider, I can't e-mail all those TGP's. I only have 12 hours.

Now, buying hundreds and hundreds of video sets, cutting clips, making thumbs, etc. is not only a pain in the ass, it's expensive and wouldn't make me profitable in the long run. Maybe I could make one set or two, then upload those few sets and replace my current (infringing) ones. So yes, the TGP would be full of my galleries which contain the same 2 or 3 content sets.

There is no win-win, but what's the lease riskiest of the above solutions? Or is there a better solution than both of those?

03-07-2003, 11:51 AM
brocklander Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 163	What would you do... Say you've been submitting video galleries for a while and are kicking ass. You have hundreds of different galleries up on the various TGP's, the TGP owner's love you, and you are getting sales from both your past and your current galleries. All of a sudden, you find out your content provider has been deceptive and the content you have up there is not legally your's. You know this because you just received a cease and desist letter from the people who really own the content, informing you you have 12 hours to take the content down or else risk litigation. What would you do in order to preserve the past traffic you have going to your galleries, preserve the relationship you have with the TGP owner's, and appease the true content owner who is threatening to sue you if something isn't done immediately (and won't consider licensing the content to you)? a) 404/redirect the galleries to a sponsor's tour b) trade out the content with content you do own the license for c) ??? I don't have time to sue the original content provider, I can't e-mail all those TGP's. I only have 12 hours. Now, buying hundreds and hundreds of video sets, cutting clips, making thumbs, etc. is not only a pain in the ass, it's expensive and wouldn't make me profitable in the long run. Maybe I could make one set or two, then upload those few sets and replace my current (infringing) ones. So yes, the TGP would be full of my galleries which contain the same 2 or 3 content sets. There is no win-win, but what's the lease riskiest of the above solutions? Or is there a better solution than both of those?