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Originally Posted by Anita Lay
Is it EVER ok to steal somones pictures from a provider and use?
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Nope it isn`t. Not if you advertise and want to make a profit. Might not happen in USA so often, but in Europe the ad pages are FULL of stolen photos from magazines, preferable from USA. That is why i recognise most of them, because i know them from agency profiles :-)) (lol). Some woman uses belledejours covermodel for advertising. Very smart.
I have to say, although . more often providers use photographs that come from TFP photographers for commercial purposes. THAT is the same "NOT OK" than using stolen photos (comes down to about the same).
The hungarians also have a reputation of using photos that do in no way resemble the actual provider. Too photoshopped. If you look at their photos, you might think bombshell, and then you see them in real life and wonder how SHE managed to look that good ! (lol)