The image may not be as racy as virtually everything else on the website,but Burlington County, New Jersey, and resident Edward Kelly is suing the owners of Pornhub for using his photo for advertisements run on the adult entertainment site.
According to a report from NJ.com,Kelly filed a civil lawsuit against Mindgeek USA, Inc., or after a friend saw a photo of him sitting in a car,wearing a Pittsburgh Pirates hat and holding up several hundred-dollar bills next to the words “form $752/day Like Me” and “See how I fetch it” on a Pornhub advertisement. The report notes that Kelly is the legal owner of the photo’s copyright, as he had taken the picture himself, and that he did not allow for it to be used by external sources without permission.“Someone on Pornhub’s advertising team found the photo… and decided to use it in an ad campaign without [Kelly’s] consent,” the lawsuit reads, as quoted by the Courier-Post.
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Source: inquisitr.com