Legal Question in Technology Law in California

I met someone once and they forgot what I looked like. I sent her a pucture of a guy who looks like me but is better looking. In the pictures there were other girls with him. I never asked the people in the pictures if I could send the pictures, as I got then off of Facebook. One day she got annoying and I told her to go away and that the pictures weren't me. Could she get me into legal trouble for showing someone else's picture? I never used a fake name or anything, I just wanted to look more attractive.


Asked on 7/05/12, 7:59 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Bryan Whipple Bryan R. R. Whipple, Attorney at Law

"Legal trouble" would be a lawsuit for something-or-other, I assume. Most lawsuits concern either getting money damages for some kind of harm, or for a judge's ruling deciding some kind of dispute. Your little caper was moderately deceitful, but probably didn't cause the lady any harm suggesting that she could demand money damages, or calling for a court order regarding this-or-that. Also, lawsuits are expensive and time-consuming. You are possibly in more danger of being sued by the better-looking guy, because you used his picture without permission and represented that it portrayed you. I hope she is no longer annoying, that the incident will be forgotten, that the better-looking guy never finds out, and that you have learned a lesson.

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Answered on 7/05/12, 8:27 pm


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