2023-04-19 20:35:10
A Kentucky man sued Netflix following an unusual mix-up. It turns out that the streaming platform used a photo of him to illustrate the case of a murderer in a documentary.
Is regarding The Ax Backpackera documentary that recounts the crime of Caleb “Kai” McGillvary, a backpacker who went viral on the internet for recounting a murder he witnessed while “hitchhiking” (ask for a free road trip) and for which he had allegedly had to kill a man in self-defense, which would turn out to be false.
Although there are records of the video on the internet, Netflix for some reason for the documentary used an Instagram photo of Taylor Hazlewooda respiratory therapist working in a neonatal ICU.
Subject claims that because this photo appears in the production, He has had to give explanations to his friends or other people he knows to assure them that he is not the backpacker with the ax.
Man sued Netflix for using him as a fake “hatchet backpacker”
The lawsuit was filed in Dallas County, Texas, on April 10, but it was not until now that The New York Times broke the news. According to the outlet, the lawsuit states:
“The photos of Hazlewood holding an ax were allegedly taken from his personal Instagram page without his permission.are placed with audio reading ‘cold-blooded killer’, with text captions reading ‘you can never trust anyone’, and with photographs of Caleb Lawrence McGillvary” in the documentary.
The photo was given because in 2019 Hazlewood took a photo with a friend’s ax and then he posted it on his networks, without expecting that it would hurt him so much.
The plaintiff specifically alleges that “Netflix misappropriated the photo by using it twice in the documentary alongside the photos of McGillvary“, which is the true backpacker of the hatchet.
At the moment, Taylor Hazlewood asks for $1 million in damagesalleging that the use of his photo has damaged “his reputation and caused him stress, anxiety and distress, resulting in a constant fear of losing future employment or relationships because people believe he is dangerous or unreliable.”
“Mr. Hazelwood he was never contacted, at all, by Netflix or anyone involved in the making of the film, regarding the original context of his photography or the planned use of his photograph,” said his lawyer, Angela Buchanan, in a statement to the aforementioned outlet.
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