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Originally posted by bopha
Months ago I purchased two sets of the Model Called Luxi
on the Bargain Basement content site. Paid next to nothing for them, but darn it , they sell like crazy for me.
The model runs a personal site herself and started causing all kinds of crap saying I can't use her stage name on my site.
Take a look at the model's release"
http://www.chocobooty.com/luxi.jpg
It says I can imply that I'm her on the other end of a telephone if I want.
She has contacted the FBI citing "identity theft" and that I'm stealing her traffic away from her own website. WTF?
Now she's had an attorney send me papers telling me that using her name is 'actionable' and that I have to remove the images and her name and give her damages.
First off, Google has: over 10 pages of this girl. She's on hundreds of sites and this is ridiculous.
Her name is not trademarked anywhere. I've asked for proof, which she has never sent. We've not located it in the trademark or pending trademark datebase.
Paul emailed her and asked her to stop the harrassment, but she has not.
Content providers, what are my options here. This is ridculous.
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I have models try to pull this shit on me all the time, its a losing battle for them I have found out
It's the fucking name they chose to model under, signed the release (at least ours) stating this was their name for modeling, its all in the model release whats legal and whats not witht eh model, the release you just showed her is way to standard and doesn't cover anyone's ass. Deal with providers who have decent licenses and releases written by a real attorney, not these providers that write their own standard little release that could shot down in court
