Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 659A - Unauthorized Disclosure of Intimate Images -- Civil Remedy

• Child: means an unemancipated individual who is less than eighteen years of age. See Iowa Code 659A.4
• Consent: means affirmative, conscious, and voluntary authorization by an individual with legal capacity to give authorization. See Iowa Code 659A.2
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Depicted individual: means an individual whose body is shown in whole or in part in an intimate image. See Iowa Code 659A.2
• Disclosure: means transfer, publication, or distribution to another person. See Iowa Code 659A.2
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Identifiable: means recognizable by a person other than the depicted individual from any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 659A.2
• Identifying characteristic: means information that may be used to identify a depicted individual. See Iowa Code 659A.2
• Individual: means a human being. See Iowa Code 659A.2
• Intimate image: means a photograph, film, video recording, or other similar medium that shows any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 659A.2
• Parent: means an individual recognized as a parent under law of this state other than this chapter. See Iowa Code 659A.4
• Person: means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity. See Iowa Code 659A.2
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Recording: when applied to the official public records of a probate or other court, includes filing. See Iowa Code 614.29
• Sexual conduct: includes all of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 659A.2
• State: includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States. See Iowa Code 633D.2