Im Amazed How Many Sponsors Dont Care About..

[Lee]

Content licensing.

It seems like all you have to do these days is ask a sponsor for access to a sites members area and they will let you login and use any of the content to be found inside.. Whether they own license to it or not :eek:

Has it really become so bad in the industry that some of the most well-known sponsors are willingly breaking content licenses to make a sale?

Regards,

Lee

[spazlabz]

Content licensing.

It seems like all you have to do these days is ask a sponsor for access to a sites members area and they will let you login and use any of the content to be found inside..

Yeah, thats all you have to do.. well, that and provide some sort of proof you're a webmasters and not a scamming surfmaster. I really cant comment on the rest of your post though since we own the licensing to all the content that you will see inside our sites but as far as I am concerned you will always have a better understanding of your traffic then I could hope to, so if all the tools we provide to a webmaster still isn't enough for them to make sales with then yeah, they can select the stuff they know they can make a profit from.

there are rules, they are simple and common sense and after that... have at and make some money!


spaz

[Lee]

Spaz,

You may own the licenses to purchased content but you DONT own the license to give it out as affiliate content unless you specifically contacted the providers and paid extra for that.

Regards,

Lee

[collegeboyslive]

Oh I would be pissed to hell if a webmaster was purchasing my content them reselling it to another webmaster. Actually we did catch one webmaster doing that years ago and I was sad that the feeds were the ONLY thing i could cut off

[basschick]

when we have gotten permission to log in and use content, which happens a lot, usually if all the content isn't exclusive, the webmaster lets me know which content not to use. i've only twice had webmasters allow us to harvest content that they probably weren't allowed to give to affiliates - and i didn't use it. i sure don't want to get caught up in a legal mess!

[gaybucks_chip]

So far, we shoot and own 100% of the content on our sites, so we're pretty mellow about allowing our affilitaes to use content. We generally set limits on what they can use in terms of number of images per set, and we generally don't allow an affiliate to use video content other than our hosted video galleries, but we'll also make videos of a specific set if an affiliate who sends any reasonable amount of traffic asks.

We don't license our content for use on other pay sites at all, so that sort of issue has never come up. We do have some sets that we are not using and probably won't use (they aren't quite a fit for our sites), so we may at some point license or sell those, but that will be a completely different deal.

I'm sure there could be some cases where content given to affiliates will get abused, but for the most part, people have been pretty respectful with us about it.