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Texas Family 'Sues Creative Commons'
An anonymous reader writes "A Texas family has sued Creative Commons after their teenaged daughter's photo was used in an ad campaign for Virgin Mobile Australia. The photo had been taken by the girl's youth counselor, who put it on Flickr, and chose a CC Attribution license, which allows for commercial use. Virgin did, in fact, attribute the photo to the photographer, fulfilling the terms of the license, but the family is still suing Virgin Mobile Australia and Creative Commons. 'The lawsuit, filed in Dallas late yesterday, names Virgin Mobile USA LLC, its Australian counterpart, and Creative Commons Corp, a Massachusetts nonprofit that licenses sharing of Flickr photos, as defendants. The family accused the companies of libel and invasion of Chang's privacy. The suit seeks unspecified damages for Chang and the photographer, Justin Ho-Wee Wong.'"
Pix or it didn't happen.
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"dump your pen friend" "free text virgin to virgin".
;).
Uh she's a young female teen.
I don't see how it's derogatory that she is being associated with being a virgin. "A lot of her church friends saw it".
Derogatory in this context would be "free text slut to slut".
As for "dump your pen friend", as far as I know, teens nowadays don't have pen friends - they use IM and SMS/"text", so that's true too.
She should be compensated though, not for being insulted, but for whatever the usual photo model gets for that sort of thing.
Now if someone put an image of a 40 year old slashdotter and used that same taglines it would be naughtier, maybe even funnier
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Well thank god for that. For a minute there I couldn't figure out who to get mad at.
1) Someone suing creators of $OS_LISCENSE
-or-
2) $CORPORATE_ENTITY exploiting random $VICTIMIZED_PERSON
Clearly we can go with 2 and blame everything else on laywers.
I just wanted to say kudos for being so massively, completely wrong, yet barging in and spouting off ignorant comments regardless. Kudos!
My favorite part was when you said it was the family's fault for licensing under CC when if you'd so much as read the summary you'd know that wasn't true. Actually, no, my favorite part was when you talked about laws as though you know them, when really, you know a few 'public property' legal rules-of-thumb and proceeded to act like you're actually knowledgeable in this area. Which you are not.
Please never post again. You're making the world a worse place with this garbage.
couldn't be held liable for libel (law student joke).
*groan* No wonder everyone hates lawyers.
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
Well the good news is that when you're an organization like Creative Commons, you're basically a team of lawyers with a marketing department.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
Did they sue God too?
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Remember, it's 99% of the lawyers who give the rest a bad name.
the Japanese have definitely forgotten this belief...
I am not a father, but if some company plastered my 16 y.o. daughter's picture all over TV, billboards, newspapers and the internet with a caption "Free Text Virgin to Virgin," there would be no end to my wrath.
Yes. I would demand that text be taken down and "Free Text Slut to Slut" be put up in its place. If there's one thing I hate its false advertisement.
Wait a minute. It's derogatory to call a minor a virgin? Is it also derogatory to call her a slut? /me is confused.
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