Chase Masterson

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Chase Masterson (2011)

Chase Masterson (born Christianne Carafano on February 26, 1963 in Colorado Springs , Colorado ) is an American actress and singer . She was on stage for the first time at the age of five. Later she toured for several years as a professional dancer ( ballet , jazz , modern and tap) as well as with a comedy troupe.

Career

She became known to a wide audience in the role of the dabo girl Leeta in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . This role, originally designed for only one scene and later extended to cover the entire series, became a career springboard for Masterson. She then moderated the news magazine of the Sci-Fi Channel and its Internet offshoot. Other film and television roles followed, mostly from the science fiction field. Apart from film and television, Chase Masterson is active as a singer, most recently she produced a jazz album.

In 2018 Masterson was a special guest at the 20th edition of the Roboexotica Cocktail Robot Festival in Vienna and gave a jazz concert for “robots and humans”.

The Carafano v Metrosplash.com case

Chase Masterson, under her maiden name Christianne Carafano, was a plaintiff in the Carafano court case against Metrosplash.com , which, as a precedent, confirmed the protection of information providers from responsibility for content posted by third parties by the US Communications Decency Act (CDA). In the US, this case became known as the Star Trek Actress Case .

The Communications Decency Act was passed in 1996 as part of the US telecommunications law amendment. Originally the exploding pornography on the Internet was supposed to be regulated with it. However, activists who fought for free expression almost completely rebuilt the law. The result was a law that encouraged freedom of expression, since from now on no information provider on the Internet had to fear being held responsible for the contributions of his customers.

Facts

On October 23, 1999, a fake personal profile for Chase Masterson was posted on the website of Matchmaker.com, an online dating service , from a computer in Berlin . It used photos of Masterson that were widely available on the Internet. The profile contained sexually suggestive content and provided Masterson's home address. The contact address was an autoresponder on Yahoo! which again revealed Masterson's actual address and telephone number. Masterson received several unambiguous offers over the next few days via phone, cellphone, and fax. In one of them, she and her son were threatened with physical violence. It wasn't until November 6 that the webmaster of Masterson's homepage found the matchmaker profile following a tip from a fan, which was removed two days later. Masterson no longer dared go home and spent the next few months in hotels with her son.

Process flow

Although the perpetrator could be determined in Germany, Masterson refrained from a trial overseas. Instead, she sued the California Supreme Court for defamation , abuse of personal rights, and defamation against Matchmaker.com and its parent companies. Your lawsuit was essentially based on the argument that the Communications Decency Act was not applicable in this case, since Matchmaker.com was able to click the personality profile to a large extent from pre-prepared answers using multiple-choice procedures, and thus the provider could was responsible for the content. The case has been referred to a lower district court. The district judge, in turn, dismissed Matchmaker.com's arguments that they had immunity under the CDA, as well as Masterson's allegations of invasion of privacy. Masterson could not prove that Matchmaker.com acted willfully negligently and maliciously. Furthermore, Matchmaker.com has no duty of care for Ms. Masterson.

Masterson appealed to the 9th District Court of Appeals. In the meantime, the case had caused so much public opinion that lobby organizations intervened. On the part of Matchmaker.com intervened, inter alia, America Online and eBay , because they viewed the legal opinion of the district court as threatening their business. Several groups fighting for privacy and two organizations representing artists sided with Masterson.

The appellate court finally dismissed the action in 2003 because the defendant was not an information provider within the meaning of the CDA because it only published information provided by third parties on its website. Offering a form with multiple choice responses does not create accountability as the form requires a human to create the actual entry. This human input forms the entry, and responsibility for this rests with the contributor, not the information provider.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Chase Masterson  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Dax: Star Trek actress in Vienna . Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ Sonja Sagan: OTS0037, Roboexotica 2018 - The Festival for Cocktail Robotics with Star Trek guest of honor Chase Masterson . Retrieved February 21, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Masterson, Chase
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carafano, Christianne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Colorado Springs , Colorado , United States