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Originally Posted by Lester Burnham
Dude, you do realize that the OP said, "he's an affiliate" and he is going to take the images down. So in other words, I think its fair to say that the OP isn't Steve Hirsh at Vivid who received a letter from Sunny Leone's legal counsel and consequently he has to decide whether to spend a gazillioin dollars to remove her image from DVDs, websites, marketing materials, DVDs, Blu-Ray, etc.? Perhaps reading comprehension and context isn't your strongest trait, but Jesus dude, get over yourself. It seems like you are the one giving shitty advice, i.e., Rowan the affiliate should cringe at the prospect of losing millions of dollars based of taking down an image which, SURPRISE, he has already said he would take down (hope he recovers from the millions of dollars and countless man hours lost)
Or maybe he just takes the image down (on the sites he controls--which apparently he has done), calls/email the provider, and has a cup of coffee. But I guess that just makes too much sense.
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You are also addressing producers like Jim Gunn. And the "cost" extends well beyond a photographers time.
You are telling people AS AN ATTORNEY "hey, better just give in to extortionists". Not laying out the law and rights of the parties as an obvious legal starting point, but rather just skipping to the dispensing of ill informed legal advice (which is really accounting advice) with incomplete facts and you do seem to be interested in helping people avoid extortionists or protect themselves as I do not see that advice... and I suspect that is probably how you at least in part, earn your living. And still, you have no clue what this costs producers, affiliates and everyone using the content and talking about cost/benefit as if no one has ever thought of that but a smarmy low rent attorney freshly graduated from the Guatemalan Institute of Goat Herding and General Legal Studies.
This is making me wonder... can you post on a forum and chase ambulances? Can you chase more than one ambulance at once while you dispense painfully obvious and uninformed advice as an "attorney"? How many ambulances do you manage to catch in one day? I mean... you know, whats a ballpark average?