Why not? In short, Fanfinderusa.com never hosts or stores any model images. We hotspot images only.
Why it matters: courts have treated inline linking/embedding differently from storing and serving an image from your own server. The Ninth Circuit’s analysis in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. is commonly cited for the distinction between providing HTML instructions that cause a browser to retrieve an image from a third-party server versus “displaying” a copy hosted by the defendant’s server (the “server test”).1
The current claim will be based on FanfinderUSA.com publishing certain images. This is wrong in fact, and thus the DMCA lodged fails at the very first test. Are we doing what is claimed? No. So the DMCA should be dismissed outright, with prejudice.
To Google: about DMCA notices targeting fanfinderusa.com image listings
Google, you’re reading this because a DMCA notice has been submitted against a fanfinderusa.com URL, and your systems have been asked to treat that notice as a copyright complaint.
We appreciate the time this process consumes. We’re also confident about the underlying facts: the image-based DMCA notices we receive against fanfinderusa.com listings are not supported by the way fanfinderusa.com displays images. In practice, the notices routinely mischaracterise either:-
(a) an embedded image that is loaded directly from the original host, or
(b) a Sponsored placement where the image is embedded with written permission for promotional use.
This page sets out, plainly and with examples, how images appear on fanfinderusa.com, why that matters under U.S. copyright analysis of inline linking/embedding, and why a notice that assumes “fanfinderusa.com hosted/published this image” is wrong on its face, because fanfinderusa.com never hosts or stores any model images.
How fanfinderusa.com displays images
Green border: not sponsored, image is embedded from OnlyFans
What it is: This is a standard listing where fanfinderusa.com has no promotional contract with the creator. The profile image is not stored on fanfinderusa.com servers. Instead, the visitor’s browser loads the image directly from the current host (OnlyFans) via an external URL.
Yellow border: Sponsored, image is embedded with written permission
What it is: This is a Sponsored listing. The creator is paying for promotional placement and has provided written permission authorising promotional use of their images. Sponsored listings are clearly marked on the card with “Sponsored”.
How the image is served: The image is embedded from the creator’s authorized source or from an affiliate partner CDN such as onlyfinder.com—never hosted on fanfinderusa.com servers—and always with express written permission from the model.
Example of a sponsored image embedded from our affiliate partner, with written permission:
Why no DMCA notice against fanfinderusa.com is ever valid
Image-based notices filed against fanfinderusa.com are fundamentally defective because they rely on a false premise:
- False Premise (All listings): “fanfinderusa.com hosted/published this image.” This is categorically untrue. fanfinderusa.com never hosts or stores model images on its servers. Every image – whether in a standard listing or a Sponsored listing – is embedded from external sources via inline linking. The notice is asserting “copying/hosting” facts that do not match the technical operation of the page. The Ninth Circuit’s “server test” analysis in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. directly addresses this distinction: providing HTML instructions that cause a browser to retrieve an image from a third-party server is fundamentally different from “displaying” a copy hosted by the defendant’s server.1
- Additional Factor (Yellow border – Sponsored listings): “fanfinderusa.com used the image without permission.” Not only is the image embedded (not hosted), but sponsored placements exist only where express written permission has been granted by the model as part of paid promotion.
In both situations, the notice fails on law and fact: it misstates what fanfinderusa.com is doing (embedded vs hosted), and in the case of sponsored listings, it also omits the existence of explicit permission.
Since fanfinderusa.com never hosts or stores any model images, any DMCA notice claiming infringement based on “hosting” or “uploading” images is factually false and legally defective.
DMCA notices require specific attestations, including a good-faith belief that the complained-of use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law, and U.S. law also provides for liability for knowing material misrepresentations of infringement.2
What we ask Google to do
- Recognize the technical reality: fanfinderusa.com never hosts or stores model images. All images are embedded via inline linking from external sources (OnlyFans, creator-authorized sources, or affiliate partner CDNs). Any DMCA notice claiming we “host” or “uploaded” images is factually false.
- Recognise we are being targeted by an illegal campaign. The filing party is not interested in DMCA per se. They just want to hurt out SEO. We ask Google flags this, and ignores further malicious DMCA filings.
- For green-border listings: these are standard inline links to images hosted on OnlyFans’ servers. The “server test” analysis from Perfect 10 v. Amazon applies directly.1
- For yellow-border listings: these are also inline links (never hosted by us) with the additional protection of express written permission from the model for promotional use.
- If Google requires verification, we can provide the relevant contract confirmation for sponsored listings and demonstrate that all images are loaded from third-party hosts, not from fanfinderusa.com servers.