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Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell
If he is using unlicensed content, that would be an issue. I am not at liberty to discuss his account except to say that if I had ever received a DMCA complaint it would have been handled appropriately. Unless I am shown otherwise, I am under the assumption he has licensed content on his server.
I am personally unfamiliar with his business model and also with how affiliates of GUBA do their marketing and what materials they use. One would hope that they purchased licensed content for use in FPAs, galleries and banner ads... right?
Brad
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Brad, that's right. I'm not much willing to discuss my business model here on GFY where folks tend to be abusive and rude, but like most professional affiliates I rely primarily on licensed content from sponsors. Since I do work in the blog world where custom differs a bit from copyright law, there are some images (and an assload of quoted text) that I'm using by informal permission of other bloggers. I'm as careful as I can be about the sources of my content, and I've never had a complaint from anyone about infringement. Brad, I hereby authorize you to state -- if you're so inclined -- whether you've ever received a DCMA notice about any of my sites, because I know you haven't.
Nobody's perfect, and in four years of building websites it's possible I've screwed up. But I'm as against theft as the next guy, and I've never knowingly used without permission an image that anybody else was selling.