Posthumous photographic images
Posthumous photographic images
The ubiquity and widespread use of smartphones and the Internet make it easier now, more than any other time in the past, to distribute images of the dead over the Internet, often without authority, to millions of social media users spread across the world, thus causing additional and unnecessary distress to survivors. But could the dead be harmed by such unauthorised publication of their death images? What are the remedial options, if any, for survivors harmed by unauthorised publications of the images of their loved ones? This chapter attempts to answer these questions using a mix of theoretical, philosophical, historical, and doctrinal methods of analysis.
Posthumous harm, Legal personality of the dead, Harm to the dead, Dead bodies, Personhood of the dead, Death images, Photographic harm
Nwabueze, Remigius N.
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11 November 2024
Nwabueze, Remigius N.
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Nwabueze, Remigius N.
(2024)
Posthumous photographic images.
In,
Trabsky, Marc and Jones, Imogen
(eds.)
The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death.
Routledge.
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Abstract
The ubiquity and widespread use of smartphones and the Internet make it easier now, more than any other time in the past, to distribute images of the dead over the Internet, often without authority, to millions of social media users spread across the world, thus causing additional and unnecessary distress to survivors. But could the dead be harmed by such unauthorised publication of their death images? What are the remedial options, if any, for survivors harmed by unauthorised publications of the images of their loved ones? This chapter attempts to answer these questions using a mix of theoretical, philosophical, historical, and doctrinal methods of analysis.
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Published date: 11 November 2024
Keywords:
Posthumous harm, Legal personality of the dead, Harm to the dead, Dead bodies, Personhood of the dead, Death images, Photographic harm
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Date deposited: 04 Jun 2024 17:13
Last modified: 05 Jun 2024 01:40
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Marc Trabsky
Editor:
Imogen Jones
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