Question about legality: If you have something LEGALLY but claim otherwise...
 

This sparked my curiosity when I saw in another thread about a site made with legal licensed content but claimed on site to be stolen content. Is there any possible issues with that? Do you have to somewhere on site in some disclaimer state that it actually IS legal licensed content? If it is legal, has anyone who has done this tactic run into any problems with it anyways?

I do have a serious curiosity about this but asking this kind of reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry gives his dad a "Wizard" and said he got a really good deal on it. His dad is excited about it only BECAUSE Jerry said he got a deal on it and was even more excited about the notion that it may have been "hot". :1orglaugh

its still a fraudulent misrepresentation

Hard to say as the FTC and other such organizations do not patrol the net.
Not saying there are not laws people or agencies could nail you on if some felt like it.


Or say you claim it is all stolen, then some model wants it off your site and takes you to court.

its funny how many people on the net have no clue about illegal sales/marketing practices... i see people breaking the law all the time and they probably have no idea they are doing it..

:thumbsup

i sale legal stolen contents.

The funny thing is a lot of the supposed "gurus" in the internet marketing world are guilty of a lot of it. Misrepresentations are the norm with all the info products and other crap they sell.

I had a feeling it was illegal but wanted to make sure - if it WASN'T then I had a great idea for a site (kind of stemming from the exgf niche, which yes is riddled with stolen content). "Misrepresentation" didn't don on me for some reason.

I guess an offshoot question then is: Would ANY "caught ______" kind of site then be guilty of misrepresentation if they're presenting pictures/vids of people caught doing whatever as if they're being presented without that person's consent when it really IS with that person's consent?

slangin mix tapes back in the day taught me this:
if something is free, people view it as worthless.
if something is stolen, people view it as priceless.

i sold so many "stolen" mix tapes back in the day.

I wonder how different that is from when you see a site claiming something like, "#1 teen site on the net with 10,000 pictures!" then you get inside and realize that the teen site has about 200 pictures, but you get access to 40 other crappy sites as well and when you add it all up it comes to 10,000 pictures.

you should go for it.. i doubt the ftc will be knocking on your door... the ftc is a joke when it comes to protecting consumers.. they slap a little fine on you and tell you not to do it again..

unless you are straight up defrauding people, don't worry about it... :2 cents:

If everything was 100% legal, we'd all be running text only free sites.

I would reason that would fall under legal puffery. As long as they did get 10,000 pictures with their membership, then there are no real lies. Saying things like the best, cherry, top rated, number 1, excellent, and other such descriptive words that would change from person to person are typically legal and just considered puff.

yeah, you make a good point. They do end up getting 10k teen pics, maybe just not the type they thought they would be getting.

you really just need 5000 pics... 5000 pics + 5000 thumbs :1orglaugh
nowhere are you claiming that the 10k pics are unique :1orglaugh

There are laws that do consider reasonable expectations. The buyer always wins in such a default when the terminology is at question. (or the writer of a contract will typically loose in same situation).
Just like you could not include graphics or whatever.


As others have said though, many people violate many advertising laws, claims, etc. Plus many violate contest laws and well lets just say laws.

I would say you would be within legal bounds if you put some fine print disclaimer text somewhere on the site/page/tos that says its not really stolen, its just a marketing technique, a parody, we do not endorse or support content theft, no actual animals were harmed in the making of this production, closed course professional driver, do not try this at home... blah blah blah...