Friday, July 01, 2005
I have subjected more than a few people to my rants about the G1rls Gone W1ld video in the last months, mostly because they keep playing ads for them on my t.v.
While I'm not the world's hugest fan of the concept, I suppose (hope) that these people are adults and they can flash their boobies to the world if they want. What bothered me, though, was that most of the girls in the ads appeared to be drunk, and I couldn't figure out how they could have legally given their consent for this commercial use of their images when they were incapacaitated.
(I have NOT been in law school too long. Shut up!)
Someone suggested to me that they were actresses playing up the stereotype of amateurs for titillation (pun intended), and I suppose that's possible, but it seemed like there were an awful lot of them.
Someone else suggested that, because they were in a public space with no expectation of privacy, their images were free for the taking. I don't know that much about U.S. laws on this issue, but some of those videos seem to show hotel rooms and the like, which would contradict this argument. Also, that news anchor who lost her job because she participated in a wet t-shirt contest successfully sued to get unauthorized pictures of herself off the net.
Anyways, today I read that the G1rls Gone W1ld producers have been ordered to pay damages to a woman in one of their videos, because the law requires written consent for the use of someone's image in a commercial venture. Finally! This makes sense!
I'm left to assume that the vast majority of the rest of the girls either a) have no problem with the images and/or are, indeed, professionals, b) have forgotten it entirely and have never had it come up in their lives, c) don't know what to do and are desperately *hoping* it never comes up in their lives, or d) can't access legal help. For their sakes, I'm hoping for a...
While I'm not the world's hugest fan of the concept, I suppose (hope) that these people are adults and they can flash their boobies to the world if they want. What bothered me, though, was that most of the girls in the ads appeared to be drunk, and I couldn't figure out how they could have legally given their consent for this commercial use of their images when they were incapacaitated.
(I have NOT been in law school too long. Shut up!)
Someone suggested to me that they were actresses playing up the stereotype of amateurs for titillation (pun intended), and I suppose that's possible, but it seemed like there were an awful lot of them.
Someone else suggested that, because they were in a public space with no expectation of privacy, their images were free for the taking. I don't know that much about U.S. laws on this issue, but some of those videos seem to show hotel rooms and the like, which would contradict this argument. Also, that news anchor who lost her job because she participated in a wet t-shirt contest successfully sued to get unauthorized pictures of herself off the net.
Anyways, today I read that the G1rls Gone W1ld producers have been ordered to pay damages to a woman in one of their videos, because the law requires written consent for the use of someone's image in a commercial venture. Finally! This makes sense!
I'm left to assume that the vast majority of the rest of the girls either a) have no problem with the images and/or are, indeed, professionals, b) have forgotten it entirely and have never had it come up in their lives, c) don't know what to do and are desperately *hoping* it never comes up in their lives, or d) can't access legal help. For their sakes, I'm hoping for a...
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