It was not their to take

Unauthorized use of photo in video slamming

 Alison Carey brings payment demand

 Alison died in August. The video, allegedly made on

Mariah Carey's instructions, is evidence of her malice

By David Baker

Posted March 31, 2025

   A post on a YouTube channel that consists entirely of negative information, some of it decades old, about Alison contains an extremely unflattering  photo of her. 

  This image was lifted from a video I shot of Alison in October 2021 when she was very unwell. 

   Which means I hold the copyright to it.  Anyone wanting to use a copyright image is supposed to contact the copyright holder and ask for permission to use it, perhaps paying a fee for the permission. Which I would not have given to this person, or to the creators of several other sites where this image has been used.

   The person who, allegedly on Mariah’s Carey’s instructions, created this 35-minute “essay” slamming Alison five months after she died didn’t ask me for authorization to use it.

   So last week I sent an email, demanding that my image be taken out of this video or, if he or she is unwilling or unable to do that, that the entire video be taken down.

   I also demanded $500, for the retroactive use of my image, used without credit which, since January, has been viewed 304,000 times.

     I also sent demands for payment in various amounts to these other people who evidently think that because an image has appeared elsewhere -- likely also without permission  -- they can take it, in at least one case, for a web page that charges a fee. 

   These people would not take say, outdoor furniture from someone’s porch. But they think it’s okay to steal intellectual property. 

   As some people are now being reminded: It’s not.

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Anonymous attacks

 In two You Tube videos, Mariah Carey 

slams her estranged brother and dead sister

The Alison video is titled "A Deep Dive 

 Into Mariah Carey's Toxic Older Sister"

By David Baker
Posted March 26, 2025

Updated March 28,2025

    Lawyers for Morgan Carey in his defamation claim against Mariah Carey have just filed a new complaint, which amends and adds to an earlier document that started the lawsuit.

   Some of it is a clean up - removing sections now irrelevant following a judge's rulings.  But one new section is highly significant: it refers to a video posted on You Tube in January titled  "A Deep Dive into Mariah Carey's Disturbing Older Brother." 

   Here are the relevant paragraphs from the lawsuit:

   

63. On information and belief, the individual identified as responsible for this video, one Lambily, is within the employment and control of Mariah, and the statements in it were made by her both personally through Lambily. 

64. On information and belief, the posting of this defamatory video is an attempt to damage Morgan’s reputation and credibility, as this action continues to move forward to discovery and tri

   Incredibly, in the video Mariah has re-published - in her own voice - statements over which she is currently facing a defamation lawsuit.  This will likely be claimed as further evidence of malice, which could greatly increase her exposure for damages. 

    The Video on Morgan Carey's - titled  "A Deep Dive into Mariah Carey's Disturbing Older Brother"- is on a You Tube channel which his attorneys allege is under the control of Mariah Carey. 

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    But another video also posted in January about Mariah’s older sister, Alison, on the same channel also reveals Mariah Carey as a callous, vindictive individual.

    Alison is dead: Unlike Morgan Carey, she can’t defend herself against these repeated allegations of criminal conduct that Mariah claims happened 43 years ago, made without a shred of evidence.

    And this video was posted five months after Mariah Carey refused to grant Alison’s dying wish that after 30 years she speak at least once with her younger sister.

   Alison’s death at an early age - she was 63 - was sad.  But at least she has been spared more of the distress caused by the baseless accusations in Mariah’s 2020 memoir.  After a life of pain, it’s hoped that Alison is now resting in peace.

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From the photo library - Oct. 2017

 

(Photo: Copyright David Baker. davidbaker@fastmail.com 

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