Barbra Streisand, Miss Vermont, And Your Website

An anonymous reader writes "The NYTimes (sign up for free subscription) is reporting about a person who wrote about a prior relationship with a former Miss Vermont. He was ordered to remove any reference to the former Miss Vermont or the relationship by court order. This ruling has obvious implications for the First Amendment if allowed to stand. I wonder if I can get the same court order applied to my ex-girlfriends' websites." Read on to see what this has to do with Barbra Streisand.

An anonymous reader writes "A Silicon Valley millionaire, Ken Adelman, is being sued by Barbra Streisand for $50 million. Adelman photographed Streisand's sea-side Malibu mansion using a 6 megapixel Nikon digital camera from a helicopter flying over the Pacific Ocean. The photograph, along with over 12,000 other photographs, is part of an aerial photographic survey of the California coastline. This photographic database is intended for use by environmental and scientific research projects interested in the health of the coastline and coastal erosion. Streisand's suit complains that the photograph is of extraordinary clarity and violates her right to privacy, as it shows details of the property that one would not ordinarily be able to see from the road or the beach. California has an 'anti-paparazzi' statute on the books."

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[BitwizeGHC]

Tardblog!!!

Re:Zing!

[mezron]

well... technically he wasn't elected... not by the people anyway ;)

Re:Streissand has a point

[Almost-Retired]

I don't know if this has been pointed out before, but the readers here should understand that within the states, Barbara is probably the single most famous person of the Jewish faith, and as such is a target for all the terrorists who are out to wage war on the Jews, wherever they live.

She went private, didn't perform in public at all for 10 years because she had received a death threat from one of them, long before Ollie North started worrying about Osama.

I don't blame her a bit. Her bodyguards have occasionally been accused of doing their job too well. In her shoes, I'd complement them when they do make the papers cause it tells the rest of the world to bring a lunch if they want to do harm.

The lady has 'class', and a hell of a voice to go with it, but those are dangerous shoes to walk around in.

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Cheers, Gene

Well

[RevSmiley]

I think that is fine. She is a liberal cunt that has been telling us her ideas or what is right and wrong in my state for too fucking long. Her wealth and popularity don't give her special rights. So the pictures are jsut fine. Some one is calling her on it. She reveals she is just another liberal who thinks the law is just for "the little people" and doesn't apply to her. But it does.