Your Child’s Picture is “public domain”
Does public domain make everything okay? Model/photographer, Lara Coton born July, 30, 1989 of Staffordshire, UK is mad as hell.
Last year Lara e-mailed her portfolio of pictures to an art website that displays work from photography students. The pictures Lara sent included one her mother had taken of her at age 14 in a black top hat and black dress.
Lara later came to hear some very unsettling news from a friend. TVX Films was promoting their porn DVD Body Magic with just that exact picture. Lara quickly found the DVD showcasing her picture on the front cover.
"I was horrified when I found out it was being used to sell a porn film.'' says Lara.
Lara is now trying to get a legal settlement against TVX Films, and wants compensation for her image being used without consent. Not to mention that she was only 14 when the photo was taken and only 17 when it was used on the DVD cover. Lara worries that someone will think it's her starring in the movie and it will give her a bad name.
TVX Films claimed the picture was in the public domain but agreed to change the DVD cover.
What's the lesson here? 1 - Child porn is way wrong and illegal, but childrens images even ones without consent to promote porn = totally fine.
2 - If you want to be a model make sure to get you're mom to take lots of hot underage photos of you and submit them to online art galleries. You will at the very least get 1 great news story out of your career.
Tags: Photos, pictures, rap, style
That’s some messed up stuff. I guess it just goes to show that you have to be extremely careful where you publish any pictures at or who you give your pictures out to.
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