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Netflix Ordered to Pay $385,000 to Woman Outed in Documentary as Secret Child of Fertility Doctor
A jury ordered Netflix to pay $385,000 to a woman who was outed in 'Our Father' as the secret child of notorious fertility doctor.
Netflix has argued that the women’s names appeared only fleetingly, and that they had given up their claim to privacy by joining a closed Facebook group for Cline’s secret children and by posting about the case on social media. The lawsuit accused Netflix and RealHouse — the documentary arm of Blumhouse Productions, which produced the film — of recklessness and negligence in failing to blur out the women’s names. But after hearing testimony this week, the judge decided that RealHouse and Netflix had taken reasonable steps to vet the film for legal issues, and that the failure to hide the women’s names was essentially an honest mistake.
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