Minnesota juvenile courts that could lead to her being placed on a sex offender registry—all for taking a nude selfie and sending it to a boy at her school. Prosecutors say that she violated Minnesota's child pornography statute, which bans distributing sexually explicit pictures of ...
Mary Franks explains how the term "revenge porn" is misleading: first, perpetrators are not always motivated by revenge, many acting out of a desire for profit, notoriety or entertainment; and second, it implies that taking a naked picture of oneself or allowing someone else to do so is a...
Based on US and British regulations in force, this article offers an overview of legislation of two Common Law countries in the area of modern forms of law
The spread of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Sub-Sharan Africa has provided a new arena for gender-based violence (GBV). Unfortunately, the growth of ICT has out-paced legal developments to regulate it. In this article we explore the legal responses to the phenomenon of no...
“revenge porn” is misleading: first, perpetrators are not always motivated by revenge, many acting out of a desire for profit, notoriety or entertainment; and second, it implies that taking a naked picture of oneself or allowing someone else to do so is a pornographic act. Creating an ...
Concerns about long-term contracts and record labels taking advantage of rock stars have caused major stars to lobby Congress. Don Henley, Sheryl Crow and Alanis Morissette have spoken before Congress on the need for rock stars to represent their own interests, without so much interference or cont...
Hungary Law Requires Photographers to Ask Permission to Take PicturesThe article reports on the enactment of a law in Hungary on March 15, 2014 that would make it illegal to take pictures without the consent of everyone in the photograph.Nolan, Daniel...
(5) liabilities for breach of the contract; and (6) any other matters that the contracting parties consider necessary. article 26 the other party shall not, without permission from the copyright owner, exercise any right that the copyright owner has not expressly licensed or assigned in the lic...
He also claimed that his name and likeness were taken without his permission. Just 11 months later, Heller passed away after a combined heart attack and car accident. To make matters worse, his lawyer strongly inferred that his death was attributed to the stress surrounding his exaggerated ...
Even as the pandemic has both highlighted and compounded the challenges many U.S. families face in meeting their members’ basic needs, efforts to expand public subsidies for caretaking have gained little traction. Scholars have identified many historical and practical reasons for Americans’ entrenche...