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Ed McCormick
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Started On : 08-Feb-2007 at 03:12:40 AM, #Views : 6507
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U.S. ARTISTS PLEASE BE AWARE!
A new bill being proposed by Senators John McCain and Chuck Shumer to hold ISPs and Internet mail providers responsible for reporting images relating the child exploitation my be draconian and may fall under the heading of the 'law of unintended consequences.'
The list of offenses that must be reported includes child exploitation, selling a minor for sexual purposes and using "misleading" domain names to trick someone into viewing illegal material. It also covers obscene images of minors including ones in a "drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting." (The language warns that it is not necessary "that the minor depicted actually exist.")
That would dramatically raise sentences for a whole swath of crimes that do not involve adults having sex with minors. The Justice Department, for instance, indicted an Alabama man in November on child pornography charges because he took modeling photographs of clothed minors with their parents' consent and posted them online. The images were overly "provocative" and therefore illegal, a federal prosecutor asserted.
We urge all membership to be very cautious in the age of models until this proposed law is sorted out.
If you wish to read the proposed bill it is attached in a PDF file.
Ed McCormick
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