17-year-old's self-portrait used in Porno DVD Cover

“Yeah, that’s right. My image is being used for a pornographic movie called ‘Body Magic’.
Did they have permission? Did they hell.
This happened a few months back (well, since I found out). Somebody noted me saying this company was using one of my pictures.. actually let me get this straight – a SELF PORTRAIT that I took at the age of FOURTEEN.”

Anybody have any ideas for this girl? What can she do to tackle this situation?

Here is the link to the original post

http://www.flickr.com/photos/larajade/513641346/

by Siddharth Siva at Mon Jul 02 03:40:00 UTC 2007 (ed. Mar 12 2008) Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Bookmark this | Digg this |

Where do you live?
That sucks. I live in the U.S.
I can work on contacting different news here. Like CNN FOX MBC MSNBC.. I can work on it for you if you want. Im a girl just like you so yeah I can understand that feeling..
BUt yeah
just message me back

by Jennifer Mc Bride | 02 Jul 2007 04:07 | Wrens, Georgia |

contact the police. if she is 14 years old they are in a shitload of trouble

by Brian David Stevens | 02 Jul 2007 10:07 | london, United Kingdom |

Possibly Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts could help with how to go forward. http://www.vlany.org/ or an advocacy group.

by Angela Cumberbirch | 02 Jul 2007 12:07 | Manhattan, New York, United States |

hmm..
fortunately no one has jumped to conclusions around here and is just thinking of solutions to the problem…(if it is for real!) Thanks for the info Michal!

Dont send her money!!

by Siddharth Siva | 02 Jul 2007 15:07 (ed. Jul 2 2007) | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |

Michal, there wasn’t a single bit of information on your link that proved a hoax

by Cavit Erginsoy | 02 Jul 2007 15:07 | London, United Kingdom |

doesnt prove it..but does raise a few questions.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/05/31/violetblue.DTL

by Siddharth Siva | 02 Jul 2007 15:07 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |

Too perfect..
Yup I would say that She (He?) is almost certainly fake. I did a bit of digging, The only references to “Lara Jade Coton” I are all related..
She doesn;t seem to have any other life outside the neatly crafted websites.

by John Armstrong-Millar | 02 Jul 2007 15:07 | dusseldorf, Germany |

Apologies if I came across as argumentative, I expressed my opinion in response to yours that’s all. :)

by Cavit Erginsoy | 02 Jul 2007 15:07 | London, United Kingdom |

The theory would fit the new model of “entertainment/news” thats for sure…...

by Andy Levin | 02 Jul 2007 15:07 | The Dirty South, United States |

she is an incredibly proficient 17 year old…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/larajade/490376529/

by Aric Mayer | 02 Jul 2007 17:07 (ed. Jul 2 2007) | New York City, United States |

maybe we are all just cynical old f+arts
This is where she did here end of year show. You could always ring to confirm, if you were the doubting type

The Design Centre
90 Upper Holland Road
Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands
B72 1RD
Tel: 0121 362 1158
Fax: 0121 321 3180

by John Armstrong-Millar | 02 Jul 2007 20:07 | dusseldorf, Germany |

Just got an email from Lara Jade herself.

We’ve been Flickr contacts for some time and I’ve never had a reason to doubt that she’s real. I replied to the baseless hoax accusation by that blogger and Lara said she did as well, though her comment hasn’t been approved as I write this.

by Jim O'Connell | 03 Jul 2007 08:07 | Tokyo, Japan |

So is this a hoax or a genuine story? I’m interested now and passing the details to a national newspaper investigative reporter I often work with.

by John Watts-Robertson | 03 Jul 2007 08:07 | Northants, United Kingdom |

I understand that things like this need to be investigated but while all are doing that the porno industry makes money on it. These things happen all the time, and this girl had “luck” to find out about it. I know well about it because I live in a place that is paradise for pirates, and the anarchy of copyrights. We live what she lives trough all the time.

by navid bulbulija | 03 Jul 2007 10:07 | visoko, Bosnia & Herzegovina |

http://www.beikey.net/mrs-deane/?p=218

“Mrs. Deane” has investigated and the girl is everything she claimed to be.

by Jim O'Connell | 05 Jul 2007 08:07 | Tokyo, Japan |

Read through all of the “Mrs. Deane” post and she claims to have spoken with Lara’s teachers and confirmed her identitiy. Looks like things are getting interesting again, perhaps this is worth a good look into by one of our journo friends.

by Nathan Shanahan | 05 Jul 2007 14:07 | Tokyo, Japan |