'Everyone associated with this DVD is 18 or over'

http://www.flickr.com/photos/larajade/513641346/

Yeah, that's right. My image is being used for a pornographic movie called 'Body Magic'.
Did they have permission? Did they hell.
This happened a few months back (well, since I found out). Somebody noted me saying this company was using one of my pictures.. actually let me get this straight - a SELF PORTRAIT that I took at the age of FOURTEEN.
I don't know if you can see the descriptions too well but it is qouted as 'Hustlers Highest Rated' and a 'pleasure to watch'. The back of the cover was disgusting.
I looked it up on the internet and found out that Hustler.com was stocking it and a range of other dirty video websites that took pleasure in this.. what I ALSO found was that there was a note on the back
saying 'Everyone associated with this DVD is 18 or over'. 18 or over? yeah right.
I contacted hustler and they gave me the name of the company - TVX Films. After doing some good old fashioned research I found that the company makes new covers for the dvds and that the movie was actually pretty old!
As soon as I'd found out relevant information and I send a long and 'friendly' letter to TVX Films - to my suprise I got an abrupt e-mail back from the owner who claimed that 'his company does NOT steal pictures off the internet and he recieved it from a company they've been in business with for 25 years'.
I found it hilarious, since I still remember taking that photograph back in 2004, I even have one of the first prints at my local walmart store with the date on! AND my small watermark on the dress which had been removed on the dvd cover..
After a few e-mails I found it obvious that I wasn't getting anywhere and that the owner was definately a sleaze himself. This is what he said in reply to me, in big bold capital letters to make a statement -

"I’M SURE BY THE END OF THE MONTH YOUR FACE WILL BE HISTORY. WE HAVE STOPPED SELLING THE DVD UNTIL COVER IS REPLACED. WE HAVE FURTHER CHECKED OUT YOUR NAME AND ITS NOT LIKE IT’S A HOUSE WHOLE NAME. ACTUALLY, REMOVING YOUR IMAGE WILL HELP IMPROVE THE SELL OF THE DVD….. SO FAR IT BOMBED.".


He also claimed I was 'scheming' and had set him up - placing the image on a public domain so companies can steal it and I can sue them... er, what? I actually had this image on only one website for a few years until I joined flickr - just DeviantART and it was clear that wasn't a public domain when underneath each of my picture there is a disclaimer CLEARLY stating the obvious (that's it's copyright)... and ALSO i had a bloody © symbol and my name written across my dress!!! Isn't that enough to warn anyone off anyway?
When I asked for compensation he said "AS FOR COMPSENSATION;YOUR SILLY!". and this was one of the end comments he made -

"THEY ARE REMAKING THE COVER AS WE SPEAK SO YOUR TEN SECONDS OF FAME WILL SOON COME TO AN END."

My so called ten seconds of fame was from a porno dvd? No thanks.


I've contacted about three solictors near to where I live - they all say they cannot do anything because the company is based in Texas, USA. I've tried contacting lawyers over in America but not a lot of them will reply, a few lawyers that have told me I need at least £50,000 to take it on. I've even tried contacting the news but absolutely no reply from them either.
I feel like Im wasting my time, my image hasn't been removed, they sent me another cover claiming they'd removed it in the end.. I researched in on the net and they'd just shown me the cover that was originally on in the 80s.

REMOVED? I don't think so. Look, here's where it is STILL featured and this is from a quick web search -
https://www.gaytoysformen.com/catalo...cfm?CFID=57816...

strippers.inadult.com/details.link/tid/881553/cfid/241811...

https://www.adultdvdtalk.com/price_s...em.dlt/sku=898...

bobbi-eden.excaliburfilms.com/AdultDVD/17654D1_Body_Magic...

www.sex-toys-sex-shop.com/body-magic_15244.html


https://www.adultdvdmarketplace.com/...ew_122311.html

https://www.xrentdvd.com/TVX/Body_Ma...l?hc=AFC-ADT&a...

dvd.adultdvd-toys.com/bodymagic-29169-adultmovie.html




Please could someone help me with this? It feels like I'm pulling at loose strings and that I have no power over people like this. I'm still only 17 and trying to make my way in photography. I feel like I cannot display this picture anymore in case someone knows it from the movie.. or even the fact that someone THINKS im in the movie and it gives me a bad name..



Please repost this, on news sites, blogs. ANYTHING. I'd really like some help with this case. I'd appreciate ANY advice you guys could give to me. Thank you very much for reading.

Wow. She got owned bightime huh?

boo fucking hoo

LOL, its not like you can see her face.

She just wants some of that porn money.

Shit, that's not good at all...

Cliffnotes: According to this girl, an adult company used a fully-clothed picture of her on a adult DVD box cover without her permission.

Her problem: The picture was used without permission.
Real problem: She was 14 at the time (according to her.)

problem is this is all probably fake shit on her part to get money. I can not beleive all the idots on that site that actualy believe. She should be sued for giving us all a bad name. Ironically she probally sucks more cocks than the average porn queen

Their response to her is sickening. People like this need to be blackballed from the industry.

I totally agree with you, that is highly unprofessional and most likely illegal! Talk about a company giving bad name to porn producers...

macromind

Sorry I must have missed something. Please show me the proof where

A) the girl posting is actually the girl in the pic

B) she is actually underage in that pic

C) she did not give them permission to use the pic.

if she's full of shit SHE is the one in big time trouble.

Hang on... I just did some basic math... gotta love this:

The picture was taken in 2004 when she was 14. Now it is 2007, so she is 17. Yet she is surfing and entering pornsites even though she is underage, and she apparently possesses porn as well (otherwise how would she have a copy of the DVD?).

I smell major, huge, stinky bullshit.

browse a bit and you'll see she has more pics of herself and she looks like on the pics. She is also a photography student and this is much more artsy than a usual porn cover would look like. I think its highly believable

surfing... she just typed the dvd title in google, dont think a 17 yo can,t do that!

She's got an "old" look for 17. Add about 10 years. Or perhaps she sucks at taking pictures.

so do you think its true?

Seems all a bit fake to me.

Not owned. Ripped off and cheated. Her image was stolen and used on a porno. I don't think owned is the right term.

The fucking asshole doing these DVD's needs his head smashed in, the way he's treated her.

Anyone who thinks this is funny should not be in this industry. We have enough bad press as it is, but using a 14 year old girls pic on the front of an Adult DVD?

If this is true its fucking sickening and helps reinforce the bad stereotypes this industry has.

bump......

damn that guy wants his dick chopped off cause he is NO man!!!

Seriously, how can he defend his actions, using a 14yr olds image on a porno dvd?

Screw the fact that the girl might be recognised or she isn't getting royalties. The fact that it's a kiddy on a porno DVD sucks big time. I have a feeling the guy you were contacting is not the guy in charge.

Id advise getting a telephone number for the company, seems he likes to talk big in emails so phone up n speak to the guy whos REALLY in charge

bump..........

That's pretty jacked up.

The response she received was even more jacked up.

What kind of a backwards production studio uses content that they did not create in order to market their product in the first place?

fucked up imho

i know she's 17 and all, but i'd totally hit it. :P

ps. im 22. that'd be legal in canada, right?

Here's a bump for this thread. Seems like the lawyers are now involved. If true i hope they sue those c*nts out of business.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/6943847.stm

nice, hope she sues the shit outta them. i'd be so pissed if a company stole my work like that

Story from 1999?

sorry but the bitch on that box has the sagging tits of a 22 year old (at least)