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Dani

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Re: A former client using my naked photos on escort website
« Reply #15 on: 31 May 2012, 08:19:43 pm »
one more bit of advice.  Dont just copy the photos take a screen shot of the AW page as proof he is advertising you as an escort incase he takes it off
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Re: A former client using my naked photos on escort website
« Reply #16 on: 31 May 2012, 08:31:25 pm »
Wouldn?t it be hilarious if you returned the favour and did it to him? Wonder how he would like it? I see premierlads.com are looking for new male escorts  :D

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Re: A former client using my naked photos on escort website
« Reply #17 on: 31 May 2012, 08:36:05 pm »
I briefly spoke to a lawyer friend ( also a former client  ::) )earlier today, and told him exactly the same what you said - that i have heard that the person who takes the photos owns them, and you can't do anything about it. He said he will contact his friend who specialises in harrasement law.
I am meeting the lawyer tomorrow, and until then i will leave the profile unreported. I will see what he (the lawyer) says.
If the pics were taken in your flat (a private place)
then you can complain with the full force of the (civil) law to AW.
The person does not have the right to publish said pics
because (I'm guessing) that you did not agree in writing
to consent to publication of said pics
and they were taken for personal use only.
AW terms of service will prohibit using other peoples pics without their consent.
AW will take the pics down.

Is your lawyer an expert in Infringement of intellectual property rights?
I'm guessing not.  So that will be a waste of time and your money.

Your complaint about usage of your image, is not a criminal matter
so the police would not be interested.
I thought about the implied blackmail threat.
Yes the police 'MAY' look at this angle.
But does this speedily get your pics removed, in such a way that you can
then just move on with your life?  No.
You do not want to be in contact with the police.
It will not achieve your aim faster than contacting AW.

The object of the exercise is to get the pics removed.
AW will do this with minimal effort.
« Last Edit: 24 January 2017, 02:54:37 pm by River »

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Re: A former client using my naked photos on escort website
« Reply #18 on: 31 May 2012, 09:42:00 pm »
I suspect Mr Jodie is wrong and I wonder if he has been looking up another country's copyright laws. Can he point to anything which substantiates his view?

AW will certainly take the photos down, and have done, but it's wack-a-mole time.
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River

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Re: A former client using my naked photos on escort website
« Reply #19 on: 31 May 2012, 10:02:14 pm »
That is the situation in English law.
« Last Edit: 24 January 2017, 02:53:50 pm by River »

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Re: A former client using my naked photos on escort website
« Reply #20 on: 31 May 2012, 10:27:19 pm »
In UK law the photographs always belong to the photographer unless copyright has been reasigned, who might in law do anything, including publishing them anywhere, without recompensing or notifying the model/subject of the photograph.

Sorry but legally you cannot do much at all apart from try the county court for harassment which will end up being quite costly for you.  The only time you might have a legal way to stop him is if he ever says he will remove them if you do such and such as it then becomes blackmail.  I do not think you will even get away with the defammation of character as you were previously an escort so he is only stating what he knew to be true at the time and can easily say he did not know you had stopped working.
He may then become really vindictive and start pasting them everywhere as he does own copyright.  You can stop him from harassing you but you cannot control where he puts the pictures and the last thing you would need is them on face book and my space and every other site he can think of.
Your best bet is report it to AW and let them know and ask them to block his IP address this time. 

We all make mistakes and the best bit is we learn from them. So get it removed, put it behind you.
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Re: A former client using my naked photos on escort website
« Reply #21 on: 31 May 2012, 11:16:53 pm »
Photos taken in a private location require written permission
from the subject to publish said photos.
That's the uk law.
The photographer owns the photos
but not the rights to do what they like with it.
It's a contractual matter which is why photographer ask for model releases.
I'm guessing that here no release was signed.

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Re: A former client using my naked photos on escort website
« Reply #22 on: 01 June 2012, 12:27:48 am »
Photos were taken in his flat.
I just had a look at his aw profile ( i can't see the profile, but i can see his feedback). It's really annoying, as i am shitting my pants, and he has apparently been booking escorts all the time, having a jolly good time. Last one on the 25th of may.  I am sure he has done it to others, not just me, and will do it again.
After reading your not very optimistic replies, seems as though the only thing i can do is to report him to aw, and await new profile with the same photos sometime soon.  :'(
Should i tell him that i have found the profile or don't bother?
His character is a mystery to me to be honest. I used to think he was boring to death, and he would never do something that could possibly cause him any trouble. Always worried about his neighbours, requested dress code: discreet, no kinky stuff, dinner etc. Boring lifestyle, work- home, not many friends. Reasonably good job, nice flat, nice car.
Why would a guy like this want to mess with an ex prostitute, who knows all his details and can have some dodgy friends who are up to anything. I am not talking about myself but in general.
One good thing about the situation is that everything he knows about me is far from true. I was an idiot to let him photograph me, but for some reason i was lying about my name, nationality, job, place where i live. On many occasions had he picked me up 'from my street' - but my real street was a 10 minute walk from there. ::)

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Re: A former client using my naked photos on escort website
« Reply #23 on: 01 June 2012, 02:28:15 am »
Hi sweetie,

Such a horrible thing to happen, poor you x

You say you have his work email? do you know were he works? If i did d turn up at his work and ask for him at front desk/reception etc and when he comes down say " i know were you work mr, Ill expose you" scare him a bit x

what an absolute w@nk3r !!!!!
x im not perfect, Im just me ....... Princess P x

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Re: A former client using my naked photos on escort website
« Reply #24 on: 01 June 2012, 07:15:32 am »
If he could find something to back that up especially regarding the model release or the requirement of written permission I would appreciate it.

While I understand it, a commercial source that may purchase images for publication may request one, I am not aware of any law requiring one.

Remembering permission was given to take the pictures in the first place, verbally which is acceptable under UK law, I dont see how a photographer would not then have the rights to do as he pleases. In saying that, you then have the issue of harassment, which does say you cannot use the images taken to cause distress etc, but that's a different matter entirely.

Unless things have changed, a photographer will more so be in trouble for taking a clothed picture of somebody in Trafalgar square and selling the image, than the OP's scenario.



Photos taken in a private location require written permission
from the subject to publish said photos.
That's the uk law.
The photographer owns the photos
but not the rights to do what they like with it.
It's a contractual matter which is why photographer ask for model releases.
I'm guessing that here no release was signed.

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Re: A former client using my naked photos on escort website
« Reply #25 on: 01 June 2012, 10:27:00 am »
Photos taken in a private location require written permission from the subject to publish said photos.
That's the uk law.
The photographer owns the photos but not the rights to do what they like with it.
It's a contractual matter which is why photographer ask for model releases.
I'm guessing that here no release was signed.

It is utterly clear that he has the copyright to the photos, so you're looking at the evolving law around privacy. If he had stuck his camera through the window of her house and started snapping away fine, but in this case, you have someone being paid to model at the photographer's venue. Good luck with that one...

This is not the US and the reason photographers frequently ask for model releases is to avoid future arguments, not because they have to.

Unless things have changed, a photographer will more so be in trouble for taking a clothed picture of somebody in Trafalgar square and selling the image, than the OP's scenario.

For people who haven't spent a while researching this :) Trafalgar Square is one of two places where you need permission (from the Mayor of London) to "take photographs or film or make any other recordings of visual images for the purpose of or in connection with a business, trade, profession or employment or any activity carried on by a person or body of persons".
'The Ian formerly known as SW5'. What they said: "Indispensable", "You are our best resource", and (hours later!) "I'm afraid that you're being made redundant..."

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