It's like you're considered to have signed away all normal rights to privacy once you become famous
Exactly. If it's considered unpleasant and peeping-Tom-ish to take photos of your neighbour and put them all over the internet, why is the standard different for an actor or singer? Where in Mr Caan's contract does it say, 'I agree to film x episodes per year for x years, and I agree that all of society's normal moral standards of decency will no longer apply to me'?
There certainly isn't a law against posting nude pictures of your ex in the US, and the last I knew there wasn't in the UK either. Currently, the only recourse in the US is to prosecute for child pornography in cases where the ex is under 18, which becomes very silly when the perpetrator is usually also under 18. If you're over 18, you suck it down.
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Date: 2011-01-19 04:51 pm (UTC)Exactly. If it's considered unpleasant and peeping-Tom-ish to take photos of your neighbour and put them all over the internet, why is the standard different for an actor or singer? Where in Mr Caan's contract does it say, 'I agree to film x episodes per year for x years, and I agree that all of society's normal moral standards of decency will no longer apply to me'?
There certainly isn't a law against posting nude pictures of your ex in the US, and the last I knew there wasn't in the UK either. Currently, the only recourse in the US is to prosecute for child pornography in cases where the ex is under 18, which becomes very silly when the perpetrator is usually also under 18. If you're over 18, you suck it down.