{"id":9847,"date":"2025-08-28T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/?p=9847"},"modified":"2025-11-01T15:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T15:50:35","slug":"zodel-llc-secures-legal-victory-in-broward-county-court-over-platformcircumvention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/zodel-llc-secures-legal-victory-in-broward-county-court-over-platformcircumvention\/","title":{"rendered":"Zodel, LLC Secures Legal Victory in Broward County Court Over Platform Circumvention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\r\n<p>Las Vegas, NV (August 28, 2025) \u2013 Zodel, LLC, a leading online talent and modeling platform, announced today that a Broward County court has ruled in its favor in a case involving the breach of Zodel\u2019s Terms of Use by a client. The lawsuit (Case No. COCE25011166) was heard by Judge Giuseppina Miranda in Broward County, Florida (Division 53), and centered on defendant Nano Spirit LLC circumventing Zodel\u2019s platform by directly engaging a restricted talent off-platform in violation of Zodel\u2019s non-circumvention policies established within Zodel\u2019s Terms of Use. The final ruling is available for review via <a href=\"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Zodel-Broward-County-COCE25011166.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Zodel-Broward-County-COCE25011166.pdf\">this link<\/a> and was inclusive of both breach damages and awarded costs from the court.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>This court decision reinforces Zodel\u2019s strict stance against bypassing of its platform. Zodel\u2019s\u00a0Terms of Use\u00a0explicitly prohibit users from circumventing the Zodel Platform to hire talent directly. Under the platform\u2019s\u00a0Non-Circumvention\u00a0clause, clients are forbidden from engaging any \u201crestricted talent\u201d (talent first discovered through Zodel) outside of the Zodel platform during a defined period, unless they notify Zodel and pay a required\u00a0Platform Buyout Fee. The buyout fee is established within Zodel\u2019s Terms of Use and serves to compensate for Zodel\u2019s investment in sourcing and vetting talent.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In this case, the defendants attempted to avoid these requirements by working with Zodel talent off-platform without payment of the buyout fee, prompting Zodel to take legal action to enforce its platform use terms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] Las Vegas, NV (August 28, 2025) \u2013 Zodel, LLC, a leading online talent and modeling platform, announced today that a Broward County court has ruled in its favor in a case involving the breach of Zodel\u2019s Terms of Use by a client. The lawsuit (Case No. COCE25011166) was heard by Judge Giuseppina Miranda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zodel-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11102,"href":"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions\/11102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zodel.com\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}