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Ex-girlfriend exacts revenge through Google Images

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Re: Ex-girlfriend exacts revenge through Google Images

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Post by ebiester »

maeon3 wrote: post #2

Sane, Pretty, Smart. So hard to find all three in a woman these days. People who do crap like this have to be handled with care, engage them and it can lead to murder. Gavin De Becker spent his entire career (30 years ) dealing with this kind of thing, protecting clients/celebrities from all kinds of psychos. "The Gift of Fear". https://www.gavindebecker.com/resources/books_by_gavin_de_be...

Sane, pretty, and smart... and single.

It's a human being thing. And amazingly enough, those who are sane, pretty, and smart have a tendency to date each other. :)

Re: Ex-girlfriend exacts revenge through Google Images

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Post by mahmud »

A more useful lesson to us is: use http status codes appropriately.

The site took down the photos, but they keep returning 200 for the links, and saying "image gone" in content. That's not how it's supposed to be.

Please check to see your web-framework and CRM actually respect HTTP, in spec text and spirit.

Re: Ex-girlfriend exacts revenge through Google Images

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Post by Jun8 »

qjz wrote: post #5
Jun8 wrote: post #3

I am flabbergasted by the tech savvy of the ex-girlfriend (of course) but also of the mom who immediately knew to contact webmasters to have the image removed from their servers and also to hit it from the copyright angle, too (a law professor perhaps?). However, I don't quite get it when she declares "My minor son's ex-girlfriend took a copyrighted picture of him (we own copyright)", the article mentions it was a pr…

Rights of ownership can be transferred to anyone, even girls.

I've never seen professional studios transfer copyright to people. That's why none of the photo services in Walmart, Walgreens, etc. will make a copy of a photo that was taken professionally.

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Post by true_religion »

Jun8 wrote: post #14
qjz wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rights of ownership can be transferred to anyone, even girls.

I've never seen professional studios transfer copyright to people. That's why none of the photo services in Walmart, Walgreens, etc. will make a copy of a photo that was taken professionally.

She might have a right to noncommercial distribution.

It's not uncommon to give that for childrens' photographs and "glamor shots" that you get at the mall. This way people can make copies for their own private use, without worrying about breaking the law and the photographer will still get paid if say the boys photo ends up on the nightly news.

Re: Ex-girlfriend exacts revenge through Google Images

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Post by [deleted] »

qjz wrote: post #5
Jun8 wrote: post #3

I am flabbergasted by the tech savvy of the ex-girlfriend (of course) but also of the mom who immediately knew to contact webmasters to have the image removed from their servers and also to hit it from the copyright angle, too (a law professor perhaps?). However, I don't quite get it when she declares "My minor son's ex-girlfriend took a copyrighted picture of him (we own copyright)", the article mentions it was a pr…

Rights of ownership can be transferred to anyone, even girls.

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Re: Ex-girlfriend exacts revenge through Google Images

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Post by true_religion »

maeon3 wrote: post #2

Sane, Pretty, Smart. So hard to find all three in a woman these days. People who do crap like this have to be handled with care, engage them and it can lead to murder. Gavin De Becker spent his entire career (30 years ) dealing with this kind of thing, protecting clients/celebrities from all kinds of psychos. "The Gift of Fear". https://www.gavindebecker.com/resources/books_by_gavin_de_be...

Considering that she's a teenage minor I think this is a pretty good level of sanity for her.

I'd consider her cleverness at googlebombing her ex to be a +1.

Re: Ex-girlfriend exacts revenge through Google Images

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Post by MortenK »

[deleted] wrote: post #15

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They didn't want to name him in order to avoid having their site show up, when people searched for the guy (thus adding insult to injury). From that standpoint, the image including the name is irrelevant as it doesn't weigh in on search result rating.

Re: Ex-girlfriend exacts revenge through Google Images

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Post by Jun8 »

true_religion wrote: post #16
Jun8 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never seen professional studios transfer copyright to people. That's why none of the photo services in Walmart, Walgreens, etc. will make a copy of a photo that was taken professionally.

She might have a right to noncommercial distribution. It's not uncommon to give that for childrens' photographs and "glamor shots" that you get at the mall. This way people can make copies for their own private use, without worrying about breaking the law and the photographer will still get paid if say the boys photo ends up on the nightly news.

Exactly; in fact that's how all the studio shots I had before worked. That does not mean that you have the copyright, though, the photographer/studio can still use the photo in ways they see fit and sell it.
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