Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I’m thinking about creating a movie database site similar to IMDb. However, I need to know if I need to gain permissions from movie studios to use the movie synopsis/description, cover/poster image, etc. of the movies on the site? Or, would that be covered by the fair use law? Will I need to right my own movie descriptions of each film?
Also, I would like to be able to make money for promoting the movies at some point (if I can right off the cuff, then great). You know, by signing up with Amazon and Netflix affiliate programs. So, what’s the best way to do all of this without getting sued (since everything in the world seems to be copyrighted material)?
Thanks.

I’m in the process of building a unique website that should attract a good number of repeat visitors in a niche market. I personally think most ads are sooo annoying. But then I want to make money too.
The website will offer an ongoing service and develop a semiloyal following who will hopefully refer their friends. So I could charge for subscriptions or sell adspace or both.
For simplicity sake it seems the best bet would be subscriptions, but then I would lose so many people who are looking for a freebie. I would retain some paying customers though.
I wouldn’t know where to begin by making money with ads, but then everybody would run to my site because it was free. What do you guys think? Should I offer free accounts with ads and paid accounts without ads?

I don’t get how Boxers get paid 15M+ for fights and top MMA fighters never break 500k. At the last UFC event according to this link:
http://mmajunkie.com/news/21951/ufc-125-salaries-thiago-silva-and-frankie-edgar-top-872k-fighter-payroll.mma
The main event fighter (Who is a Belt holder) only made 102k, and that’s including his win bonus too.
At first I thought maybe way more people go to Boxing live events and they fill 100k stadiums, but then I figured, the last UFC with GSP headlining had 23k and they still didn’t come close to a boxing payroll. Then I logically thought way more people must watch Boxing PPV’s, however at the GSP vs Koshcheck II post-fight press conference Dana White mention how the UFC is “In half a billion homes worldwide”.
So what is it exactly that allows Boxers to be paid so much more? I can’t imagine, even if it’s more popular than the UFC that it can be THAT much popular. For it to make sense in that way, they would have to be in 5 billion homes worldwide and selling out 800k stadiums, it’s just not logical.
So anyone know the secret to this advance boxing marketing?

Somebody raised the point that i was in dialogue with. that i’m being hypocritical in being vegetarian yet the clothes & metal i’ve purchased more than likely has affiliates with child labour or slave labour.
That my idea of compassion to all sentient beings wasn’t fully sound.
My only retort was ”because i can’t do everything doesn’t mean i shouldn’t do something where possible, & vegetarian is an effective way where as finding a slave/child-labour free clothing or metal would be much more harder to find.”

Okay so I work for some programmers working on a website, not sure if I should post it but I will. Its called rufflesraffles.com. Its a great system and so far we have had almost 5,000 hits and already sent out prizes we hoped that winners would spread the word but it seems like they just keep it a secret. I am part of the marketing team and I have searched for a million and a half ways to increase traffic with no luck. We have a meeting with some investors and advertisers next week and we are supposed to have a substantially increasing public…I have five accounts on Facebook and I have had no luck there I post have naked women on YouTube and get like a million hits but noone visits the website on the girls boob and I have even tried selling stuff on craigslist all over the country stating I won it on ruffles Raffles. I am tired and out of ideas! I have tried mass email marketing which sucks because it usually just gets filtered into spam folder I have even tried paying for Google ads its just the benefits don’t outweigh the harm(costs $1.25 per click on the ad and raffle entries cost $1 and some are free but make us a dollar so we wold lose $.25 advertising with Google, same story with Facebook a little less with MySpace but MySpace is dead for what they charge). I want someone to offer help, legitimate ideas, I am begging you, I could potentially loose my job :-/ please don’t answer it takes time…please don’t…I know its true but not true too, I created a blog about hacking a PSP a while back when I was in high-school, its been 3 years and that website has only had 1,390 visitors half of which were probably me.

Hey, I have been trying to make a buck on the net just like you and have not had much luck except for spending all of my money. So I told my self I would not waste any more money to these online GURU’S. I cought my self spending more money online but only one more time and this was the last program/software i bought. (Mass Money Makers – Proven to convert by over 7,551 affiliates.) FINALY i found something that works.
Best of luck