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.'"

Comments

Re:Virgin should pay them nothing

[timmarhy]

sweet black baby jesus! someone listened to an opposing view and agreed with it!!! i can't be on /.

CC actually helped the virgin daughter

[CarpetShark]

If anything, Creative Commons actually helped her, by providing simplified licensing options, with clear explanations. If she didn't get it, or if her family disagreed with what she did, then that's a matter for them.

More importantly... I read this as "...Virgin daughter..." on the second reading. My question obviously would have been, "do we know she's a virgin, and if so, how?" Strangely, that question still interests me ;)

Completely offtopic!

[rts008]

I learned in college (Oklahoma) that the only relevant fact needed was: In Texas the men are men, and the sheep are scared.

This corollary got me into many bar fights in Texas for some reason....Hmm.