[Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun May 23 06:30:45 UTC 2010


Stillwater Rising wrote:
> Actually, it's not only the uploaders that have 18 USC 2257(A) record
> keeping requirements, *anybody* who "inserts on a computer site or service a
> digital image of, or otherwise manages the sexually explicit content of a
> computer site or service that contains a visual depiction of, an actual
> human being engaged in actual or simulated sexually explicit conduct"
> *or *"produces,
> assembles, manufactures, publishes, duplicates, reproduces, or reissues a
> book,
> magazine, periodical, film, videotape, or digitally- or computer-manipulated
> image, picture, or other matter intended for commercial
> distribution" becomes a "secondary producer

One important point in this lies in "intended for commercial 
distribution."  The mere fact that others are allowed to use material 
for commercial distribution is quite short of *intent* for commercial 
distribution.

Ec





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