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Are you a victim of revenge porn?
Let’s first talk about what it is: revealing or sexually explicit images or videos of a person posted on the Internet, typically by a former sexual partner, without the consent of the subject and in order to cause them distress or embarrassment.
While 38 states and the District of Columbia have laws against revenge porn, let’s talk about how copyright law can help you, the victim of revenge porn.
Revenge porn is a plague
Copyight law is the answer
Victims of revenge porn need a remedy that provides takedown procedures, civil liability for uploaders and websites, and the threat of money damages. Copyright law provides all of these remedies. Because an estimated 80 percent of revenge porn images are “selfies,” meaning that the subject and the photographer (author) are one in the same, the vast majority of victims of revenge porn can use copyright law to protect themselves.
Here at Verna Law, we will hear your confidential situation. We will suggest a remedy for you in order to have the photographs and videos removed from the internet. You, as the person who took the selfie, are the author of the work. You, the victim of the revenge porn, have the power to have these items removed from the internet.
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Utilize all civil/federal takedown procedures possible
Obtain monetary damages from offending parties
Pursue all legal remedies
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Authors of published and unpublished works retain the same exclusive rights under §106 of the Copyright Act. By definition, those participating in uploading, copying, and trafficking in revenge porn violate the §106 exclusive rights of victims: those who post images on websites create copies; websites make copies to store on servers and display copies of the original images on the web. And, as the Supreme Court stated in Stewart v. Abend, 495 U.S. 207 (1990), the Copyright Act necessarily includes a right not to publish: victims have chosen not to publish their own images, an exclusive right violated by their harassers in the revenge porn business.
Takedown Procedures
Civil Liability for Uploaders & Websites
Money Damages
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