Machine Gun Kelly Shot on Epic Dragon

[David Battistella]

I get your point. I'm just wondering how pond 5 reacts when they find out it is stolen. How many times might they have sold it previous to this time where by some freak chance it was found out.

I guess you can't blame Walmart for selling stuff made with slave labour, they just have to get their customers the best price, right?

I'm not saying Pond 5 has to police this stuff (but it might be nice of they did) but how they react to selling stolen clips is important I would think. It would make me reconsider buying fluff from them.

Battistella

I would not necessarily blame Pond 5. They have to rely on the information that the producer gives them about the clip. If Pond 5 is given false information, they will not know it unless they have actually seen the clip elsewhere, and remembered it.
This reminds me of a story about a special effects supervisor that worked on an early space scify film. A few years later when he had another company, a potential employee brought in a demo reel that had shots of the original movie. Not only that, not knowing that he was in front of the spx supervisor, boasted that he was the right hand man, etc., etc. Of course he hadn't been anywhere near the film nor did he know the supervisor.
Oops!
Bottom line: this goes on all of the time, and sometimes it takes an accidental discovery to expose a fraud.