‘Revenge Porn’ Target Of New K&L Gates Project

K&L Gates’ new project, the 50-attorney Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project, is targeting posters of “revenge porn,” usually spurned lovers who put nude photos of their exes online without permission. The Project is working with about 100 victims, many referred from two national advocacy groups for victims of revenge porn, the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and Without My Consent. The K&L Project is using protections offered by federal copyright law to demand that websites take down the images, or face a lawsuit along with the perpetrators.