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The job of an ad is to make your product (if you're an actor, that's you) look good. If they deliberately make you look bad, they should expect to hear complaints, possibly legal ones. |
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And she is not allowed to sue for breach of contract with someone else. That's the sort of thing that gets lawyers in trouble. Again, she whined that she couldn't get work, and the jury didn't sympathize. |
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And manipulating a survey to get the results you want isn't the same thing as a deliberate lie, legally or morallyl. Yeah, but juries are notoriously unsympathetic to litigants that are at least a slimy as the other side. She deliberately lied with a fraudulent intent. Get over it. |
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I don't have a problem with actors lying about their age, favorite food or natural hair color. They are actors, they play parts, their whole job is about deception. I do have a problem with a jury concluding that a company can give credit card information to a third party without any repercussions. |
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Are we only taking her word for how IMDb got her true age? Or have they admitted to how they got it? IMDb allows users to submit data, I have done so on many occasions myself, so it could easily have been someone she knows who submitted her age, instead of IMDb doing all that legwork.
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04-14-2013, 11:29 AM | #53 |
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It's analogy time!
If this would be a story about a Hispanic woman who can pass for Caucasian, looking for a job in a market that discriminates against Hispanics that said on her profile on website that is an important source of reference for employers that she is is Caucasian, only to have the website use her credit card information to find out about her ancestry and then change her profile data, would her actions be considered fraudulent? Last edited by Sil_liS; 04-14-2013 at 12:10 PM. |
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She sued over privacy regarding information that isn't private. And lost. If you don't like it, don't use their web site. |
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Plus, to make it a a little closer to not being invalid, the job she's looking for is a role in a movie, remember. And let's say she looks caucasian, but the character is black. Regardless of what analogy you might imagine you've come up with, the discrimination she faces is not illegal, and her actions were intended to deceive potential employers. Now, of course, that's par for the course in Hollywood, on both sides, but so is digging out the deception. She knew that. |
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They are public records but that doesn't mean that they are available for public viewing. The Records Preservation and Access Committee of The Federation of Genealogical Societies and The National Genealogical Society recommends that birth records be open to the public not less than one - hundred (100) years after the event. Quote:
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I don't think that you understand how analogies work. I made an analogy by replacing the discrimination in question (age) with a different one (race). All forms of discrimination are supposed to push emotional buttons. |
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Let me see if I undestand your position correctly: You are concerned that the jury did not rule in favor of the plaintiff based on information that wasn't (and couldn't be, since she had not standing) part of the case, and that this will somehow create a precedent, even though legal precedent cannot be established at the trial court level? Your complain isn't with IMDB, it's with their merchant service (assuming they violated the merchant agreement, which no one has alleged), and with the private eye whatever web site, which they don't seem to care about. You should write them each a letter, and encourage them to pursuse civil action for the illegal acts you believe were committed against them. The actress in this case can't do so, because she has no standing to do so. No precedent can be set here, since the issue you're worried about wasn't actually part of this case. |
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