Mom sues when breastfeeding video ends up on porn sites
Back in January 2010, the 35-year old mother had agreed to participate in an instructional video about breastfeeding. The video, produced by Meredith Corporation, an Iowa based media and marketing company, was part of an educational series on their Parents TV and Cable channel. The video producer assured her that the material would only be used for the educational video, and that only her first name would be used, according to NBC News New York. But the company ended up posting the video on YouTube with her full name included. Someone then spliced the video clip into a pornographic film.
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“I didn’t get paid to do this. I didn’t want to be some sort of celebrity,” Sahoury told the Associated Press. Breastfeeding didn’t come easy for her. When her daughter was born in December 2009, Sahoury had trouble nursing and went to a lactation consultant, who later asked Sahoury if she wanted to appear in an instructional video to demonstrate nursing techniques for other mothers. “Breastfeeding for me was the most rewarding thing I had ever done in my life,” She told NBC 4 New York. “I wanted to share that with people. I really wanted to give back.”
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“The sad truth about the Internet is that you don’t have to have your breasts exposed to wind up on a pornographic site like [Sahoury] did,” Fertik explains. “In today’s world, you don’t want to have your Internet flank exposed. You need to control your Google real estate before someone else does.”
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“Many pornography websites are overseas and therefore legally unreachable,” says Eric Goldman, director of Santa Clara University School of Law’s High Tech Law Institute. Sahoury has taken the most logical step, engaging in reputation management, and that’s almost always a better cost-benefit option than legal ones.”
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