Re: internet and copyright

[voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Being a person without country, there is not a whole lot you can do.
Copyright issues are generally legislated within individual countries and
then other countries, by treaty, agree to abide by some common conventions,
or recognize the rights of the other signatory countries.

In the United States, an individual has an implicit copyright in works that
they create, at the time of creation. If you (unwittingly) participated in
the creation of a video, or a video of you was distributed on the Internet
without your permission, your recourse is limited, I believe. People are
*supposed* to get ALL the participants to sign a release, but this doesn't
always happen, and not a whole lot happens to these people. The problem is,
unless you are a minor, you have to suffer real damages, and then drag it
through the courts, where the video will get even MORE publicity.

If, in fact, this was an actual medical exam, and not something akin to a
"nature documentary", you DO have recourse in the US, because it's a
violation of all sorts of privacy laws that specifically relate to medical
practice.

At a minimum, you can contact the web site hosting the video and demand they
take it down.

Good luck
Wendy

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:55 AM, heidi arnold <heidi -dot- w -dot- arnold -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:

> hi,
>
> if any here wd have suggestions about the following, i wd be grateful.
> apparently ignoring a problem with the idea that most rational adults in
> the
> internet age are governed by a sense of decency and good taste is
> apparently
> not going to work in this situation.
>
> if an individual's right to privacy and right to contract over video
> material that others publish on the internet is violated, what is the best
> way to remedy this. by privacy i mean that videotapes of gynecological
> exams
> are not widely published on the internet for the jackals to sit and drool
> over, that is a metaphor, but the general idea is about the same.  my
> apologies, again, the original assumption that most people are governed by
> a
> sense of human decency and good taste has not applied in this given case.
> there is an appetite to see pain manifest, which encourages repeated
> incidences of violation of privacy and visual dismemberment.   i am being
> oblique.  if someone has a suggestion please do voice it here.  i may not
> follow it.  i do not consider myself a citizen of any country at present,
> so
> there is no benefit to anyone to be gained in the resolution of this
> theoretical issue.
>
> thanks.
>
> h
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