When You Buy Content...

[hershie]

Originally posted by Linkster
What would the difference be between me (as an affiliate) providing a link to a sponsors gallery used as a teaser lead to the paysite, and me as a TGP owner, providing a link to a gallery using your content.
If you specifically disallow someone using your content for galleries, I could never submit a gallery to a TGP, as then it would be available to all of the thousands of surfers that see the content for free on a tgp.
The whole purpose of a hosted gallery is that the content is served from one server(and domain) although thousands link to it - same as a LL or TGP that links to a gallery makers site where he is using your pics?

I don't see the logic of making that analogy you have above between an affiliate and a TGP owner. There is no issue with any affiliate submitting galleries to TGP's for all to see from sets they have licensed. However, that is a far cry from thousands of affiliates all having access to that same one licensed set that was licensed only once and submitting the gallery made with it. I believe content has a certain shelf-life because it looks dated or is over-saturated. By allowing galleries to be given out to affiliates to use with their link code in the ads contributes significantly to its saturation IMO since not even more then a handfull of those same affiliates would be buying those sets and is an end around of the intention of licensing a set to someone that is being justified by saying it is only hosted on one domain so isn't in violation of the License.