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Victims of revenge porn are increasingly copyrighting their salacious photos as they battle the people who share the intimate snaps and the websites that host them.

A California Jane Doe recently won a $6.45 million suit against former beau David Elam after he spread online photos and a video of her topless or simulating sex acts following their 2013 split.

The judgment included $450,000 for copyright infringement.

The woman sent the saucy material to Elam consensually but never gave him permission to post them to dating and porn websites.

When she tried to have them taken down, the woman ran into a common problem for victims of revenge porn — some websites refused to remove the material.

And so Doe, a law student, obtained a copyright for the seven pics and one video — which gave her legal recourse against the sites and Elam.

The legal maneuver is a trend among victims, who have few other options because there is no federal law explicitly forbidding the sharing of nonconsensual photographs, and states rely on a patchwork of regulations ill-equipped to deal with the issue.

Yet the copyright route provides an imperfect recourse, according to David Bateman, a partner at the firm that represented Doe. “Copyright is not designed to deal with revenge porn. It just happens to give you a remedy. But it’s not perfect,” Bateman told The New York Times.

Among other hurdles, the applicant must possess and provide a copy of the materials they wish to protect to the US Copyright Office.

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