Posted on 06/24/2013 11:00:31 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
When bikini-clad Chelsea Chaney posed next to a cutout of Snoop Dogg during a family vacation, she had no idea that the photo would be shown to hundreds of strangers at a Fayette County Schools district seminar. An administrator used the photo to demonstrate the dangers of posting to social media.
You never know who’s creeping through your Facebook profile.
To prove that point, a high school administrator in Fayette County, Ga., grabbed a revealing photo from a student’s Facebook page and showed it to hundreds of students and teachers at a districtwide seminar.
The student in the photo, 17-year-old Chelsea Chaney, is now suing her district for $2 million, saying the picture was used without her permission.
In the photo, taken during a family trip, Chaney wears a red bikini and poses next to a cardboard cutout of rapper Snoop Dogg. The young woman, now a college freshman at the University of Georgia, says she posted the photo to the social media site thinking that only her friends and friends of friends could view it.
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Kip Winger was a prophet!
“OK so who in the school system thought it was wise to actually use a photo of a student like this?”
A professional indocrinator who trolls the internet looking for pictures of young girls, apparently.
Votes for Obama, no doubt.
Not Guilty!
My question is...on sites such as Facebook, can someone specify that their photos cannot be referred to or reproduced wothout their pemission? Can they have something there that states the site is only for those they have given permission to?
I'd think a disclaimer like that would at least provide a right to sue if someone uses those photos.
I've taught for 46 years. My view is that a school district exploiting a student photo such as this without permission is despicable.
The Disclaimer clearly states EVERYTHING you post no longer belongs to you and they can do with it any dam thing they please. I’m sure someone will correct me if I am wrong.
late 60’s- early 70’s super grungy look. Hippie chicks.
I played drums in Metal/Rock bands for nearly 30 years. I learned to talk to the Groupies about school. Some were just going into High School and they looked 25. Especially when they pull up to the dock in their own Party Barge where my band was playing in ME. Danger Will Robinson, Jail bait. Run Away! Not even the two young ME State Troopers carded them.
plan to be served with her $2M suit vs. you soon.
Similar story here. Played in the NFL.
First day, every day, offensive line coach said “never put your [male genetalia] in anything you don’t want having your baby.”
We chanted variations of it during warm up/wind sprints.
She probably should start with the NYPost where I hotlinked it from.
> the internet does NOT come with an eraser
Sorry but I beg to differ with that point. There have been many instances where the Internet has been scrubbed of information if those who hold power did not want the information on the Internet.
Oh yeah...the gub’mint has a vast supply of Magic Erasers.
If the school had access to her photo on her FB page (the school could actually see it there), it sounds like she had it posted “public” unless somebody who could see it on her FB grabbed it and passed it on to them. A ‘right-click’ and ‘copy’ is all you need to take a photo off a FB site, no matter what disclaimer is used (and I have yet to see one other than on photography sites with copyrights). You can post a photo and specify who can see it ... yourself only, your friends, friends of friends, or a custom group of people you specify ... what any of these folks do with it ..... well, that’s the chance you take on FB.
No, they can’t.
That is my understanding. I think she will lose, because Facebook actually owns the copyright to her images now.
Well, as Snoop Dog has recently been revealed to be a former pimp of underage prostitutes I submit that thinking was probably not an activity connected to the photo op.
Likely she was clowning around with a girlfriend cracking jokes and giggling a lot. Inebriating substances may or may not have been involved.
I believe you are incorrect. And the way to protect the image is to put a copyright credit for the photographer.
Actually there are some companies that specialize on erasing Internet history. Here’s one:
Gosh, how much better it was in the bad ol' days. A picture got taken that you regreted, and you destroyed the negative and got all the copies back. Not that things like that ever happened with my HS Class of '63. <^. .^>
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