Falcon Foto and BayTSP have announced a partnership to protect Falcon's huge adult photography library against copyright infringement, and to monitor compliance with federal anti-child porn laws.
This comes a week after Falcon won a copyright infringement action against a Florida content provider who resold a CD-ROM with over 2000 of Falcon's photographs, without the company's permission.
BayTSP says it will become the singular age model verification and category system for Falcon, which in turn becomes the first content provider to offer licensors "electronically compliant record-keeping documentation governing the sexual exploitation and abuse of children."
This means BayTSP's 2257Brand information software will brand the Falcon electronic photo library, with 2257Spider applied to scan the Internet and pick off Web sites using Falon's content illegally. BayTSP says this should deter theft of Falcon content and eliminate "the need for Web masters that purchase Falcon Foto content to maintain burdensome" required documentation.
"From our perspective, this is an invaluable opportunity to demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of our 2257 suite of applications and services," says BayTSP cofounder Mark Ishikawa. "Falcon Foto owns one of the largest known libraries of over 1.3 million images. This partnership ensures that Falcon Foto and its licensors will be the first fully federally compliant online adult companies in the nation."
Falcon president Gail Harris says the company works hard to enforce and protect its copyrights, making the BayTSP partnership critical. "After months of extensive research and testing other security applications, BayTSP.com was clearly the best solution for protecting our online intellectual property and complying with the record keeping requirements of U.S. Code 18, Section 2257," she says. "Licensors of Falcon Foto can also be assured the content they purchase from us has not been over exposed by unlicensed Webmasters."
