Picture/image hosting sites?

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Originally Posted by RawAlex

One of the best sidelines of an image host is that if you write the T&C correctly, you end up with an unlimited lifetime license without compensation (past the intial hosting) for all images, which can have some value later on depending on how you use it.

The downside? The courts have yet to rule on the concept of image hosting and the normal innocent host exemptions, especially if the images are presented on pages with advertising or otherwise edited or grouped by software or a third party. The whole question of model releases and (in the case of porn) 2257 still sits out there as well.

But in the style of the internet, go out there and make money and hope like hell that you aren't the 0.001% of the world that gets selected for that special lawsuit or legal action.

Ok, well T&C can be legally written for ownership of all uploaded content to server by company discretion? right? and with an non-ownership clause of content ownership? why should we be liable for 2257?
This is the way it should be legally played out.
But the concept of the "for profit" dominates the courts of this Nation and the adult industry by the balls, its not a matter or concerns of some legal 2257. Why you think this porn stuff flows for free all over the net?





PornTube does it? why can't smaller hosting sites?

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