GirlsDoPorn victims win rights to their videos
Also: Court Orders GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys Video Rights and $18 Million in Restitution to Victims (U.S. Attorney's Office - Southern District of California)
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Source: BBC
GirlsDoPorn victims win rights to their videos
17 December 2021
Hundreds of people tricked into making explicit videos for porn websites have been awarded the rights to the videos and millions of dollars in damages.
The sites, GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys, had been the subject of a long-running legal battle.
The US Department of Justice has ruled that rights to videos and images produced by the now-defunct sites belong to the women.
More than 400 victims can now ask for the online footage to be removed.
They are likely to enforce notices ordering the firms, including Pornhub and Google, to take down the material.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59699234
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Source: U.S. Attorney's Office - Southern District of California
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Court Orders GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys Video Rights and $18 Million in Restitution to Victims
NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – December 15, 2021
SAN DIEGO – U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino has ruled that all rights to videos and images produced in the GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys sex trafficking case be awarded to the hundreds of victims who are featured in the footage posted to the adult websites.
Judge Sammartino issued the ruling as part of a restitution order in the prosecution of Ruben Andre Garcia, an adult film performer and producer who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring with the owners of the GirlsDoPorn (GDP) and GirlsDoToys (GDT) adult websites to recruit young women to appear in the sex videos using force, fraud, and coercion.
In addition to granting the rights to the videos and images to the victims, Judge Sammartino ordered Garcia to pay approximately $18 million in restitution to the victims.
To address the problem that hundreds of victims in this case have been and continue to be victimized by the posting and viewing of their GDP and GDT images and videos, Judge Sammartino outlined the following conditions:
- Garcia, aka “Jonathan,” has no right to use, publish, or otherwise exploit GirlsDoPorn (GDP) or GirlsDoToys (GDT) images, likenesses, or videos;
- All purported model releases and other agreements between GDP and/or GDT and its models purporting to give GDP and/or GDT the right to use, publish, or otherwise exploit its models’ images, likenesses, or videos are void and unenforceable;
- All transfers, licenses, or leases of the right to use, publish, or otherwise exploit the models’ images, likenesses, or videos by GDP and/or GDT to any third parties are void;
- Each model holds superior right, title, and interest in the images, likenesses, and videos depicting that model produced by GDP and/or GDT; and
- Each model shall have and recover all property that GDP and/or GDT took from them, including images, likenesses, videos, and copyrights.
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Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/court-orders-girlsdoporn-and-girlsdotoys-video-rights-and-18-million-restitution
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But without the means to hire good investigators and lawyers, these women will probably never be able to eliminate their images online, nor will they be able to collect any money.
These images will continue to pop up on different websites just as fast as they can be discovered and shut down. That’s the nature of this nasty corner of the Internet. I hope I’m wrong, but that seems to be how these things always turn out.
