Apologies for what is effectively a rant about the models requesting the removal of their content from AbbyWinters.com after keeping their fee from their shoot. Certain things get me riled, this is one of them;
If I was to buy any goods, any at all, consume/use them in whatever form is appropriate and then return the packaging to the retailer – they wouldn’t have it and i’m pretty sure it would be regarded as theft, and rightly! So tell me, what expectation a young lady who has made the decision to model and perform/pose for naked and erotic images for a company whose level of work is plain to see from their web sites can decide to take legal action against the entity in question to have their pictures removed from the site yet retain the fee paid for their services!
Whether models like it or not, they makes their bodies a product the moment they accept cash to reveal it… That product like most is then marketed and sold to a waiting and established market.
It is fairly reasonable to expect in later life that many the girls who so freely allowed themselves to be marketed in this way and sold to the masses as a fantasy will regret their choice to take a career in adult entertainment, some may not and that’s more than awesome, but they should at least be intelligent enough to realise once the content hit the web it is out there and their actions irreversible.
We take care to ensure all our models are extremely well informed as to the nature of the work, and there are 16 specific, identifiable, documented events in the model recruitment and shooting process for models to opt-out, or change their mind.” Hall said. “Of course, all our models sign a contract that indicates we own the rights to the content we have produced in perpetuity.”
It appears to me that AbbyWinters accept that guilt can manifest itself and have processes to deal with that during and out of their recruitment policies.
This was referring to the five-day cooling off period we have where, for five days after a shoot, a model can choose to return her modeling fees, and we’ll destroy the shoot, if she changes her mind,” Hall said.
There is also a process where a model, under duress of some sort, can contact us and have her content removed under some circumstances. Depending on the facts, we may immediately but temporarily remove her content from the site, while her application for permanent removal is run through the regular removal process.”
…and gone way further than they need to in my opinon, but the above surely shows good working practice that should be praised not bashed and berated!
Meanwhile, the company’s move from Australia to Amsterdam is full steam ahead and Hall said he will make the transition as smooth as possible.
We run our business to always be at least four months ahead of our actual content requirements, just in case we need to stop production for any reason, so the site itself (and our DVD’s) will continue being updated on their usual schedules.”
Hall added that Dutch laws tend to be more favorable than Australian laws when it comes to running an adult business.
Already they have been forced to flee Australia and Australian law.
