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[theweaselking]

Ah, yes, the class and taste of Texas porn purveyors: Using a 14-year-old girl's self-portrait taken from her DeviantArt account as the boxcover to your porn movie, without permission.

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[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I ran across this story somewhere recently. Did someone on our mutual friendslists post it?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Not that I saw. I got it from ryusen, and that was the first indication I had of it.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait, I just remembered. My friend winterjaye posted it. She has some photos on DeviantArt too, that may be how she heard.

I think I suggested that she call the Texas AG's office.

[heraldofchaos.livejournal.com]

might be time to get some hacktivisim going...

[eukarya.livejournal.com]

I could be mistaken, but aside from copyright violations, it also might be in violation of recent anti-childporn laws that have been in place for the past few years.

[mcfnord.livejournal.com]

the image is not porn, in my opinion. what a sleazeball though! wow!

Doesn't matter

[eukarya.livejournal.com]

What matters is that they used an under-age girl, period. The laws in the States now don't care if she is clothed or unclothed.

[mcfnord.livejournal.com]

It's a plausable argument. It might also be possible at the federal level, presuming state lines were crossed. It's a complex area in my opinion. I do think this perpetrator deserves an unusual sum of "justice". And somewhere in there may lie severe means. I bet it has to be criminal court because he's probably "judgement proof" in civil court. Whatever. He'll get his. Nice pic though!

[eukarya.livejournal.com]

The lawmaker's, I should of emphasized, not mine. Sorry about not being entirely clear.

As for location, she's from the UK. Some people think it might make it more of a difficult case, but I doubt it, the copyright is still her's, and the way the current laws over here have decided to define what is and isn't child pornography will most likely create quiet a problem for them. And at the very least, she has every right to sue that company for defemation.

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

No, but they were using the image of a 14 year old girl to market porn.

[dolston.livejournal.com]

Best solution is to contact the US Embassy or FBI with the proof and let them do the rest.