Tiffany - Webcam

moron50 Wrote:Interjecting into something I know little about - more fool me.

I work on the principle that everything is copyrighted - somewhere, by someone. How far they wish to enforce & pursue that is their perogative, but equally if dealing with your fan-base / potential customers & assuming that it isn't predominanately of a leeching nature, a bit of give & take doesn't go amiss. Suppose it depends on the ratio, if you follow.

© every damn word I write.

The situation with the content that Ass2Cam recorded does raise an interesting question over copyright though (or lack of copyright). For example, when a photographer pays to shoot a model then the photograher is the owner of those photos. The situation with Ass2Cam paying for Tiffany to pose for a cam show is similar - implying that he is the owner of that content....except...

...the two major differences are firstly that Tiffany claims that she wasn't aware that she was being recorded (although she surely must have realised that it was likely that her cam shows would be recorded - we're a nation or world of 'recorders') and secondly that a photographic model would usually sign a model release allowing photos of her to be published/distributed.

Still, despite the two (probably significant) differences above, I would hazard a guess that the content that Ass2Cam posted would not be copyrighted. Especially given that nothing in the t&c on the site through which he accessed the show mentions ownership or copyright of the camshow content.