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A federal jury has awarded a man with Down syndrome $150,000 after a photograph of him was doctored and misappropriated on the Internet.
In what’s believed to be a first-of-its-kind case, Pamela and Bernard Holland of Nashville, Tenn.sued in 2013 after finding numerous instances of their son’s photo altered and reposted online.
The image was taken in 2004 when Adam Holland, who has Down syndrome, was 17 and attended an art class at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, which serves people with developmental disabilities. The photo shows Holland smiling and holding up a piece of paper with a drawing that reads “Go Titans.”