In a first, Yahoo to pay damages for photo

June 17, 2011 11:32

In a bizarre case, Yahoo Japan and another company have been ordered to pay 660,000 yen in compensation over a photo of a handcuffed man carried on Yahoo Japan's Website. Yahoo Japan's public relations department said they believed this is the first time a Web site operator has been ordered to pay damages for news articles or photos originally distributed by media outlets.

The complainant said her husband committed suicide because of the picture. But get this, the handcuffed picture was carried by Yahoo in 1985, while the man committed suicide in 2008. That's 23 years lag time!

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