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By Nse Peter
A pastor in Akwa Ibom State, Dr. Abel Damina has threatened
to file a lawsuit against Think Akwa Ibom! blog for publishing photographs of
his 22-year old daughter, Jesimiel.
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Dr. Damina who is the founder/Senior Pastor, Power City
International, Uyo, said that the publication of the photographs by Think Akwa
Ibom! violates her daughter’s right to privacy, and that they should be taken
off the blog immediately.
“Those photos
have not been officially released to you or your organization and you don't
have the rights to them. This is directive is from Dr Abel Damina that
you remove the post immediately to avoid legal actions,” Mercy Titus who
claimed to be Damina’s office assistant said in an email sent to Think Akwa
Ibom! on Thursday, October 15, 2015.
Think Akwa Ibom!
says it won’t take down the post as demanded by the pastor.
“Tell Dr. Damina, we are sorry to disappoint him: we won’t
take down the post from our blog. He can go to court,” Mr. Nse Peter, the
editor of Think Akwa Ibom! said in his response to Damina’s email.
Mr. Peter went on to explain why the blog won’t give in to
Damina’s demand: “When you share your photographs on Facebook, it must be because
you want the public to see and probably appreciate them, as well as tell others
about you and your photographs. Therefore, it would be wrong, absolutely, for the
same person who posted her photographs on Facebook to turn around and claim the
right to privacy over the same photographs she personally posted on the social
networking site.
“What was Jesimiel thinking when she posted those
photographs on her Facebook page? What harm have we caused her or her family by
publishing those beautiful photographs of hers?
“Think Akwa Ibom! didn’t sneak into Jesimiel Damina’s bedroom to take the photographs
from her personal computer; we copied them from her Facebook page and have
properly credited those photographs to her. We only helped her to share her
photos to our readers, which we feel Dr. Damina and her daughter, Jesimiel ought
to thank us for doing just that.”
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| Screenshot of Jesimiel Damina's Facebook page showing one of the photos that was lifted by Think Akwa Ibom! |
Dr. Damina should realize that the name "world wide web" is real. When you share your photos or personal information online, you have broadcast it to the whole world. As long as the credit is properly given, as long as the source is properly acknowledged, any information
ReplyDeleteShared online belongs to the world, especially when you're the same person who shared it. In this case, nothing bad was said about the pictures, rather it was an appreciation.
My advice to the respected Dr Danina is that he should not work to raise a scandal, rather he can complain to Facebook and they can take off the pictures from her daughter's FB page. Or report it to Google and Lets see how things pan out. Actually her "privacy" was signed away the moment the posted them. And she's an adult by the way. She should be the one to complain. Come on, she lived and schooled in the US! So daddy should let things be.
Atimes things complained are not worth complaining!
ReplyDeleteA person do not just loose "Their rights" to demand or to simply seek to enforce their desire to terminate something which they might have initially accented to at a different point in time. Its very clear that people don't necessarily perceived "all" the far reaching implications of their decision at an initial point in time. While the Web is arguably a public domain, The "persons" in the pictures are 'private entities' and they therefore can have a Change Of Heart at anytime. Perhaps arising from the feelings of been uncomfortable as to how they now perceive their "image" is been projected either positively or negatively! This his request is simply very authentic and for The Publishers to have defiantly rejected his requests as reported, cast a shadow of inordinate intentions on their so called "good gesture" or of just helping to broadcast his beautiful daughter as claimed. Then even going to the extent of suggesting to get an appreciation instead from the man is laughable!
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