Part of me loves their reaction. "We stole a picture of you at 14 to plaster on our DVD and now it's your fault it's not selling so hot."A teenage photographer is suing a US porn film company for damages after it used a photo of her aged 14 on the front cover of one of its DVDs.
Lara Jade Coton, now 18, was "shocked and disgusted" that her self-portrait, which she put on the internet, had been used without her permission.
Miss Coton, of Tamworth, Staffordshire, has filed a lawsuit against the film company through a California court.
TVX Films, which made the film Body Magic, was unavailable for comment.
'Pretty frightened'
Miss Coton said she found out that the photo had been used when someone e-mailed her asking her permission to use it on their blog.
Porn DVD using picture by Lara Jade Coton
The photo was downloaded without Miss Coton's permission
She said: "I was shocked and disgusted because I was 14 at the time the photo was taken.
"My family were outraged.
"You don't expect your image posted on a website to be taken for something like that.
"I was pretty frightened, especially about what people's reactions might be.
"If I didn't put the case in now, in years to come - because I want to be a successful photographer - then what would happen?"
She said she had e-mailed TVX and was told that her photo was "to blame" for the DVD's poor sales.
She said: "I was very angry. Their reaction was quite shocking."
It plays to the sterotype of porn magnates being boorish insenative pigs feeding on the misery of their fellow human beings heh?
