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Originally posted by johnuk
I've just had an email from CCBill telling me to remove all pics and references to British model Adele Stephens from my site (which they process for). They claim Perfect10 hold all "rights of publicity" to this model.
I bought the pictures from Scarlett.net and Photorama.nl all of course with licenses. Does "rights of publicity" supersede my licenses?
Anyone else had any run ins with Perfect10, I heard they kicked the shit out of AdultCheck but I'm assuming AC's webmaster where using pics without licenses?
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Many AC webmasters were using the pics without a license and I guess Perfect 10 got a judge to require AC to remove all sites in their system until the webmaster proved that they had the rights to use the pictures. They removed one of my old gold sites which actually still sells a lot of memberships. I bought the pictures from Garill so my content wasnt legal but they still removed the site. So I had to fax over a statement saying I paid for them and provide a copy of the license.
That was pretty simple and I thought they would make my site id active again, but their agreement said that the lawyer from Perfect 10 had 2 WEEKS to approve the license. I found out who the Perfect 10 lawyer was and got him on the phone. He told me he would look into it and actually had my license on his desk. The next day he wouldnt answer my phone call.
Going down for 1 day sucks, but 2 weeks is bullshit, so I just changed all the ids on my Gold site to another Gold site's ID and so the other site got credit for any signups, and then redirected the other sites members area back to where it should have gone.
Of course when they logged into the members area there was a picture of my middle finger telling Perfect 10 to GFY and explaining to my members what happened. Then I emailed the lawyer, letting him know he wasnt going to fuck me over for 2 weeks especially when I paid for the pictures and to go check my site so he can see I made it around his little judgement. I never heard back from him, and in 2 weeks my gold site correct id was valid again.
Good luck