Devinn Lane Files Suit Against Vivid, Digital Playground, Others

[RawAlex]

Yawn.

The girl is a name star, and the use of a domain name to market her isn't exactly big news, no different from a store putting up a sign saying "Get your Devinn Lane Videos here".

I also have to wonder about the idea of work for hire. I am sure that this girl did work on a contract basis, standard model release "got paid X to appear in the movie" routine. She doesn't control that, nor would she have direct control of the marketing or sales of that material. If she did 70 movies and someone gets the online rights to all of them, should they be banned from using her name in the domain name that markets those movies?

The guys redirecting the traffic to other sites might have an issue, although even then, they might only have to show their original intent (did it originally point to a site that contained her content) to show that they were not doing anything particularly misleading.

Porn girls think that they have some sort of magical control of their name long past the point of signing that model release. I just don't think that is really the case.