@article{ref1,
title="Feminist legal geographies of intimate-image sexual abuse: using copyright logic to combat the unauthorized distribution of celebrity intimate images in cyberspaces",
journal="Environment and planning A",
year="2019",
author="Farries, Elizabeth and Sturm, Tristan",
volume="51",
number="5",
pages="1145-1165",
abstract="Women's rights are often curtailed online due to the pervasive internet atmosphere of cybermisogyny. Extreme examples include 'image-based sexual abuse', a term which encompasses the non-consensual creation and/or distribution of private sexual images. The harms attached to this phenomenon are well documented. In this paper, we explore how copyright logic, despite its male-centric and property oriented worldview, presents one legal solution to this problem. We assert that Digital Millennium Copyright Act Takedown Notices, a copyright mechanism that notifies websites they are hosting infringing content and requires the prompt removal of the content, represents a novel legal mechanism to force websites to remove image-based sexual abuse from women's online spaces. By using critical discourse analysis to review how Digital Millennium Copyright Act Takedown Notices attempt to provide solutions to the socio-spatial problem of image-based sexual abuse, we argue that copyright can subvert its current leanings to return to its original purpose: supporting creativity. Supporting creativity also helps to protect against the reproduction of gendered harms, from the real world to virtual spaces. This theorization represents not just legal geography but a feminist legal geography, in that it recognizes the internet should be a safe and legal space for women. In endorsing a pragmatic legal solution for women to regulate the sexually violent and nonconsensual distribution of their intimate images online, copyright is one mechanism that affirms women's right to cyberspaces.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0308-518X",
doi="10.1177/0308518X18786964",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18786964"
}