TAMPA, Fla. — In a case that could serve as a cautionary tale for adult companies that contract out artwork to third parties, a British teenager has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Tampa against TVX Films, alleging that without authorization the company used her self-portrait as box cover and DVD face art for a new edition of the 1982 adult film “Body Magic.”
In the lawsuit filed Tuesday, U.K. resident Lara Jade Coton accuses Texas-based TVX Films and its president Bob Burge of copyright infringement, civil conspiracy, misappropriation of her image, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The lawsuit also names other online retailers in direct and contributory copyright infringement claims.
Bob Burge is the name of my Placer High School journalism advisor. I’m pretty sure it is a different guy.
She’s got them dead to rights on commerical missapropriation. Pretty stupid not to settle before this got to the lawsuit stage. Now you get to pay a lawyer to defend the suit to lose anyway.
I could hardly believe the interest in this girls work on flickr. Your legal guys are usually pretty switched on, but a 17 year old dreamy image maker got you by the balls. LOL
Anyone have the pic in question? Gonna have to appraise the stroke value
type Lara Jade Coton pic in Google images. You’ll see the box covers for Body Magic and more of her photography work.
It’s a nice arty photo with zero nudity implied or otherwise. Any suicide girls wannabe photog could have pulled it off for $100.
Thanx Drew. Though I will say the pic is quite well done from an artistic p.o.v., the image itself has the stroke value as an Ansel Adams photo
“of” not “as” in the above post…my eyes were too affixed to belladonna taking one up the shitter to spell correctly