Lawyer to help remove photos of adult DD from porn sites?

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We are consulting the police today as there's also some footage of her age 16 out there, but she's now 20 and we're not sure they'll help with the misappropriation of (formerly public) social media photos of her as an adult, which have been gathered by porn site users and posted on the same pages as the illegal stuff.

I understand publishing her photos on these sites is a copyright issue, and that lawyers can help with this. Can anyone recommend a firm that specialises in this?

We are finding it impossible to do ourselves, and repeatedly visiting the sites is massively re-traumatising for DD.

I don’t know what to advise but there was a recent BBC sounds podcast called ‘Degraded by Deepfakes’ which dealt with a not-dissimilar situation, which might be helpful.

There a lot of info regarding copywrite on the gov website. This might help.

Help with copyright lawThe IPO Customer Support Centre offers general advice on copyright law.
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You can get advice on particular legal issues from an intellectual property (IP) professional.

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/nca-issues-urgent-warning-about-sextortion

Advice re sextorition but some helpful links to agencies/charities who might be able to help.

Thanks all, I will go through these sites for advice.

If anyone can recommend an IP lawyer or anyone who specialises in this area, I'd be grateful as it's hard to work out who the best experts are.

https://chambers.com/legal-rankings/intellectual-property-london-firms-1:34:11814:1

This might be helpful but most of these will be £££ and focused on corporate clients.

This is brilliant @Petrine, I've emailed the IPO. Thank you.

https://vardags.com/reputation-privacy/services/blackmail

Really helpful, thank you @TequilaSunsets. Yes these do look like big corporate juggernauts but it's good at least to see the rankings. I'll see what the IPO say but will hang onto this.

https://yaircohen.co.uk/

How about Yair Cohen? No personal experience of him but conscious he’s dealt with some high profile cases involving abuse of women via the internet.

Wow he looks perfect, thanks for this

Can this organisation help?

stopncii.org/

I don't think so as they're not technically NCIIs - thanks though

For reference you could probably expect to pay £500-£1000+ per hour for a firm specialised in IP.

You should also read the T&Cs of wherever the photos were originally published to see if copyright was maintained at that point or licenced for certain purposes etc.

I would be interested to know how you got on OP. So sorry for your DD xx

I know this is an old thread, but for anyone who comes looking for help, SWGFL runs a helpline for revenge porn with apparently a very high percentage of success getting things taken

https://swgfl.org.uk/helplines/