Gee, I wonder how one might have felt in that being the one raided, all to have the charges dropped.
Exactly what is wrong with the US.
Then I thought about it for another hot minute, and realized that Afroman (and his legal counsel) may be just canny enough to take this all into account. Think of the optics of the cops suing this Black man trying to get at his honestly earned cash. Think of how that will play out in the public square. Who's a more sympathetic figure here, win or lose? There's no such thing as bad publicity!
So I think Afroman may have counted on this whole lawsuit debacle and he's going to get enormous mileage and notoreity out of it. Kudos to him for this. I love these videos. This guy is da bomb. Hilarious.
The law may be clear cut ... who knows what the court will decide. I was saying I don't know what you think the link means, what you think /= the law.
As for the actual topic I don’t know what you think the link means. That’s too general a topic to just just know what you’re trying to say.
If you think the article is too general, I think you have not read it. There is very practical information as to how this law works in various jurisdictions. You can also see Wikipedia for "model release". You will see contradictory information of course, because it's not a clear cut issue. But the takeaway is, if I take a video of you at a mall being weird and use it to make a viral music video on which I capitalize and which makes you uncomfortable, guess what you can (and should) sue me. Will you win? Maybe not, maybe yes, depends on how prominent your role is in the video I guess.
It's interesting that so many of them share a surname.
The cops will lose this.
It's pretty much their business model to publish fake news. While they'll have to redact the articles later, they've already made their money by that time.
While I can't speak for the legality of using photographs from people for profit without their consent, I'm sure that the magazines would still do it, even if it wasn't legal using the same tactics.
The same excuse the magazines use for the articles would be just as applicable with these pictures, as we thought it was legit transfers directly over to we thought they'd given permission.
It's all fine legally as long as the articles are retracted for missinformation
What you're thinking of is getting damages/convictions because of the misinformation. That's indeed quiet hard and will require proving that you've actually been harmed, which is extremely challenging, generally speaking.
Funnily, Afroman's video mostly showed us non identified cops being stupid.
Now Shawn D. Cooley, Justin Cooley, Michael D. Estep, Shawn D. Grooms, Brian Newland, Randolph L. Walters, Jr., and Lisa Phillips made sure 8 billions people have access to their name and can find their home address at will. [1]
Good job guys. If anything, the humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, loss of reputation and embarassment is self inflicted.
[1] https://sciotovalleyguardian.com/2023/03/23/adams-co-deputie...
There’s an appetite for lies about murders committed in daylight and on camera. And there’s appetite for news footage of police beating peaceful protestors.