Re: Loss of privacy from one's photo having been published on the

[Barbara Tyhurst <btyhurst@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>]

Thanks for your responses.  I've had several requests for more information
about this case and my additional research revealed this:

I called the radio station that discussed the case (KVI in Seattle) and they
informed me that due to technical failures they have no transcript or
tapes of that particular program--therefore . . . .

I called the show's hosts at their place of business and talked
with either Chris Nikia (not sure of the spelling) or David Monroe (both
are the hosts--I think it was David) at Best Computer (BCI) in Seattle, and
was told the following:

An individual had created a web page entitled, "Babes on the Web," which was
a compilation of photos (and text?) of at least 30 females who had
individually published their own photos on their own home pages.  One or
more of these women took it to court (David (?) cited his resource as the
Newsbite News Network on American Online) and lost because they had
been published on Internet with the consequence of becoming "public
figures".

I don't subscribe to American Online, so if anyone finds this source (or
others), or that this is false info, I would appreciate hearing about
it.  It appears that in this particular case, if it's true, any assumed
copyright laws have been ignored.