Teen model sues Apple over ‘hot’ pics

Apple Store“A Long Island teen beauty says an app-maker turned her into an Internet tart,” Kathianne Boniello reports for The New York Post.

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“Aspiring model Rebecca Battino’s career got off to a strange start when sexy self-portraits she took as a 16-year-old popped up in an online iTunes application called ‘eXtreme Cam Girls,'” Boniello reports. “Unbeknownst to her, the images soon spread like a virus to dozens of flesh sites across the Web, making her an international sex sensation.”

Boniello reports, “Battino, now 19, took the pictures of herself in the mirror with a digital camera. The steamy shots were swiped from her computer, Battino claims in a $1 million Manhattan federal-court lawsuit that accuses Apple and app-maker Samba Studios of copyright infringement.”

“The application has since been removed from the iTunes store, but Battino is fuming that she hasn’t gotten any credit — or cash — for the shots,” Boniello reports. “‘I was just upset that I’m not being paid for my pictures,’ she told The Post. ‘I’m not embarrassed.'”

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124 Comments

  1. And I thought tees’ place is in school, not in front of mirrors, camera in hand…

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  2. And I thought tees’ place is in school, not in front of mirrors, camera in hand…

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  3. And people wonder why the App store rules are as strict as they are, especially concerning adult content… This is why. So Apple doesn’t get randomly sued by every girl dumb enough to take sexy photos of herself and allow it to be put on the interwebs.

  4. And people wonder why the App store rules are as strict as they are, especially concerning adult content… This is why. So Apple doesn’t get randomly sued by every girl dumb enough to take sexy photos of herself and allow it to be put on the interwebs.

  5. Nothing will happen to Apple. I’d be surprised if a girl gets any money at all. If I take a picture of my body in a mirror, and someone uses it in an app, I wouldn’t expect money.

  6. Nothing will happen to Apple. I’d be surprised if a girl gets any money at all. If I take a picture of my body in a mirror, and someone uses it in an app, I wouldn’t expect money.

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