German Court Rules That You Can't Keep Compromising Photos After a Break-Up

mrspoonsi (2955715) writes "A German amateur photographer has found out after his ex-girlfriend took him to court, which ruled that the subjects of smutty pictures can withdraw their consent if they're naked. [News release in German.] The shutterbug was able to keep the clothed pictures, however, as they weren't considered to compromise the reputation of the woman in question."

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Re:Ridiculous

[s.petry]

Have you considered that maybe your view of relationships might not be universal?

If you want to claim that a relationship by nature is unhealthy, I'll tell you to prove it. Thousands of years of psychological and sociological research will prove you wrong. Don't cite some one off quack to make your point, do the actual work. Sure there are "unhealthy" relationships in the world, but that is not because relationships are bad, but because of human nature. Example, all people breath and criminals breath too. That does not make breathing bad, it means that people breath. In a relationship, people need to learn to spot unhealthy behavior and deal with it. Either attempt to correct it, or move to a healthy relationship.

There are many people who will value a relationship highly even after it ends, everything you say seems to be negative.

I used a normal generalization where a person would want to keep naked pictures of their ex. If the relationship remains friends after a breakup, it's an exception not the normal. In which case, part of the friendship would entail deleting old naked photo's of the ex out of respect don't you think?

It would be a terrible world indeed where we would stop remembering the good times we had together with some loved one.

If you are a person that has to sit and look at naked photos of the ex to "remember the good times" you either had a relationship that was not really a relationship but a string of sexual encounters, or you are mentally ill. I don't mean that as accusatory, but if the shoe fits...

If you want to call out the exception as the normal, at least try and make it a valid exception. Nothing you said makes my statements wrong, you appear to be trying to nitpick to convince yourself that keeping naked photo's of an ex is an okay thing to do.