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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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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.
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?
Old saying: If there is one lawyer in town, he goes broke. If there are two, they both get rich.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Remember, it's 99% of the lawyers who give the rest a bad name.
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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