Last month’s leak of celebrity photos wasn’t a “scandal,”...
Last month’s leak of celebrity photos wasn’t a “scandal,” it was a “sex crime,” actress Jennifer Lawrence told Vanity Fair Tuesday (http://vnty.fr/1yJOs81). Lawrence was among those affected by the leak (WID Sept 3 p12). “The law needs to be changed,…
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and we need to change. That’s why these Web sites are responsible,” said Lawrence. Google executives received a letter last week (http://bit.ly/1pJapJM) from Martin Singer of Lavely & Singer threatening the company with a lawsuit potentially in excess of $100 million for hosting the photos (WID Oct 3 p1). Copyright experts told us the difference between “general knowledge” and “specific knowledge” of infringing content under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor laws makes this incident unlikely to produce a successful suit.