Playboy dagvaardt GeenStijl, because links to leaked photos

Sanoma Media, publisher of Playboy, Playboy USA, and Britt Dekker filed a lawsuit against GeenStijl because the blog linked to leaked nude photos of Dekker. GeenStijl thinks nothing wrong to have done it.

Sanoma, Playboy Britt Dekker accuse GeenStijl from any infringement of copyrights, infringement of portrait rights and infringement on the personal privacy of Dekker, who for the November issue of the men’s magazine posed. In addition, says Sanoma by the posts which Stated to the leaked photos link, ‘significant damage’ to have suffered, as appears from the summons.

The plaintiffs demand of GeenStijl, the blog posts with links to the photos taken offline and that the weblog will promise in the future no infringements more to commit. In addition, Sanoma, GeenStijl a compensation for the damage suffered. To do this, start the publisher proceedings on the merits, reports Stated on his weblog.

The photos were originally hosted on the website Filefactory, according to the prosecutors a choice of GeenStijl, in order to save bandwidth. When the photos there taken offline were and appeared on the hosting servers of Imageshack. GeenStijl claims, however, that the photos will never in possession and also not to the servers of Filefactory uploaded. The blog says only linked to files that are already online were, and stressed that link is not the same as publish, or disclose.

From the summons it appears that the prosecutor believes does not share; because GeenStijl with his blog post the link to the images are among a large group of people spread, would that count as a revelation, despite the fact that the pictures are not in the possession of GeenStijl. GeenStijl says that the summons consists of ‘lies, slander and libel’.