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Originally posted by aeon@May 21 2005, 04:23 PM
What I got told is if it's sexually explicit (vague term that hasn't really been defined and as such "implicit" should be counted in there too) that image/video has to comply.
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http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/us...56----000-.html
§ 2256. Definitions for chapter
Release date: 2004-08-06
For the purposes of this chapter, the term—
(1) “minor” means any person under the age of eighteen years;
(2) “sexually explicit conduct” means actual or simulated—
A sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex;
B bestiality;
C masturbation;
D sadistic or masochistic abuse; or
E lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any person;
(3) “producing” means producing, directing, manufacturing, issuing, publishing, or advertising;
§ 2257. Record keeping requirements
Release date: 2004-08-06
(a) Whoever produces any book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape, or other matter which—
(1) contains one or more visual depictions made after November 1, 1990 of
actual sexually explicit conduct
; and
(2) is produced in whole or in part with materials which have been mailed or shipped in interstate or foreign commerce, or is shipped or transported or is intended for shipment or transportation in interstate or foreign commerce;
shall create and maintain individually identifiable records pertaining to every performer portrayed in such a visual depiction.