Comments on: 14-Year-Old’s Self-Portrait Turns Up On Porn Film

By: TS

TS — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:02:53 +0000

This poor girl's photo has showed up other places too. I found it while browsing for a new blogger background. It was under the 'sexy' and 'vampire' tags. Poor kid. The blogger background was finally removed from the site and I haven't seen any remnants of it even, but still, it was up for a long time before it was reported.

By: WMS

WMS — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:10:10 +0000

A 14 year old's photograph used on the cover of a porn DVD? Why do I think that a US District Attorney should be interested in this?

By: D,Morgan

D,Morgan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:16:38 +0000

Having had work stolen myself. I wish you well in getting paid for your work compensation and an apology

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:06:31 +0000

They should've at least offered to pay her some royalties when finding out that she was the owner, if there was "nothing they could do." Especially after they found out she was a minor!

By: Somebody

Somebody — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:14:07 +0000

I don't think it helps that flickR strips all the metatags out of images, either. So people are free to just steal the images, and then further down the line, if someone comes across the image somewhere else, and legitimately wants to use it, it's impossible to track down the original owner.

It's theft, and regular people can help by crediting photographers when they share images - along with a link. flickR can help by not stripping out IPTC metadata.

And finally, advertisers and photo editors can help by not using images that they are not sure they have clear rights to.

By: LloydB

LloydB — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:42:21 +0000

There clearly has been an infringement of copyright so Lara by rights should be compensated especially when the photo had a copyright to confirm this.

Also publishing a picture (for financial gain) of a minor without a parent signed model release.

By: Thomas Semesky

Thomas Semesky — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:14:27 +0000

I hope she wins the legal battle. Just goes to show that one has to be careful of what they post.

By: Jon Griffith

Jon Griffith — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:34:45 +0000

Good for her! @#^@#$. Thieves should be hunted down and dealt with financially. Especially those who would peddle disgusting material using a photograph of a minor.