Former Penthouse Lawyer On Thumbnails

FullyIonized writes: "Gigalaw.com has an interesting article on the legality of using thumbnail images written by an attorney for Penthouse magazine, who "had to be familiar with the entire Penthouse-catalog of photos and models, and ... proactively surfed the Net in search of kidnapped images." He summarizes an interesting case, and then argues that pr0n thumbnails (among others) are different from other thumbnails."

Comments

"familiar"

[andy@petdance.com]

And you thought "video game tester" was a cool job to have.

Funny over exageration.

[Deagol]

The offending sites spanned the spectrum, from basic home pages where some college student had posted a picture of his favorite Penthouse Pet, to multi-million dollar pornographic pay sites that were stealing virtually the entire catalogue of Penthouse's previously published photos.

Show me one "multi-million" dollar porn pay site today (never mind in the early-to-mid 90's). From what I hear, due to the glut of porn out there, it doesn't pay that much. Even Playboy's own site is losing money.