Another day another lawsuit........

[BradShaw]

Can't people give me a month off lawsuits so I can relax before my wedding?

I was thinking this could be the big one. Or this could be KB taking the $ he made off Stern and suing me. But this is much more interesting, and should be of concern to many people who buy content.

We bought a ton of David Lace content over the years. Was contacted a couple years ago by a lawyer saying that we had images on one of our websites that was of his client and asked to remove it. At first they would not tell us what image was in question. Finally they told us which one, turns out it was an image we bought from David Lace. Lawyer claimed that the model never signed a release, and it was only a "test shoot". I tried numerous times to contact david lace and get a copy of the release and id's. He ignored me time and time again.

I guess he likes to ignore people, see Acacia. At that point I chose to remove the image, figured it was no big deal and it would be done. Well here we are 2 years later and today I get served with a lawsuit from this girl, she is also suing David Lace for using her image without permission.

Will be interesting how this turns out, and where the liability lies. If Lace really did not have model release and sold the images to me, who holds the liability here? Do I turn around and sue him and hope he does not hide like he did from Acacia? I can not see where I would lose, but no doubt this will cost some legal fees.

Bottom line is that when buying content, I would INSIST on model releases, and ID's in YOUR hands. Take this as a lesson learned. Also, if you have David Lace content on your site, may want to take my experience as a warning.