Incredible portrait of blogger/photographer Marta Lamovsek with Slovenian Playboy girls. “This pick was made after we shoot for a Slovenia Playmate of the Year. Aleš Bravničar as a photographer, I did the assisting (and girls loved me, of course ;)”
My plane tickets are purchased (thanks, anonymous sponsor!) and I will be hotel-hopping with streaming mobile video, liveblogging, lots of friends, queer porn pals, backstage access like crazy, and — I aim to misbehave. It’s got to be SXSWi 2009, Austin, Texas.
It’s now official that I’ll be giving a core conversation talk (in my own room) with special surprise guests called “Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Expression and Self-Defense.” This will be on Monday, March 16, from 5-6 PM. “From the personal to the professional, we will demonstrate and discuss instances, legal realities and tactics for survival and success of sexuality-related crises that occur online.” The tickets, officialness, skinny legs and all has come together in my inbox this weekend — simultaneously with learning about a talk I really wish I could have seen. There’s no audio for it online, or much in the way of details (for legal reasons, I’ll guess) but it’s *very* thought-provoking in what little bits of it are viewable online and it ties into my SXSWi talk plans. Recently, Colette Vogele gave a talk at Berkeley School of Law to a privacy class regarding a recent case she filed involving a “Doe Plaintiff” who is facing a serious online reputation crisis after a former boyfriend posted photos and images of her to a user-generated porn site.
Slide excerpt by Colette Vogele.
Vogele (full disclosure: she is one of my lawyers) just filed suit, so no details of the case are available but even the generalities are fascinating in this rapidly, rabidly emerging crisis area of law, sexuality and online personality management. It affects all of us. On the Stanford Law Blog Vogele writes,
The most interesting thing for me (so far) in this case was learning about the option of filing a case as a “Doe Plaintiff.” This is important because people faced with these problems must deal with the unwelcome additional publicity that may surround their filing suit. Filing a public lawsuit may exacerbate the problem, not help. There is little law on Doe Plaintiffs in the context of cyber-bullying and cyber-privacy concerns (esp. when not involving children). In our case, the court recently granted our motion to proceed anonymously (which the defendant did not oppose) but the order is not published (except for on the court’s docket). (…read more, cyberlaw.stanford.edu)
Slide excerpt by Colette Vogele.
See all of Vogele’s slides here. I’ll have more details about my talk available soon, but if you’re coming to SXSWi, it will be held as an open forum where you can ask me questions, which I’m really excited about.
