![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
2004-07-21
Never Used 2257 Regs Get an Update Anyway
By: Mark Kernes
07-01-2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has never inspected the records kept by producers of performers in sexually explicit photos or videos, and Attorney General John Ashcroft actually had the moxie to admit that when it came time for his required report to Congress under the PROTECT Act passed last year.
Ashcroft offered no excuses for his department’s sloth – but he did have a brand, spanking new set of regulations to propose under 18 USC 2257, the section of the U.S. Code created by the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988 which, due to a lengthy legal battle, didn’t go into effect until 1995.
The new requirements were published in the Federal Register on June 25, 2004; the public will have a chance to comment on them until August 24, and unless any changes are made (doubtful), they will take effect on that date – just in time for the Republican National Convention!
Prominent First Amendment attorney (and AVN/AVN Online legal columnist) Clyde DeWitt has written a commentary on the proposed regs which will appear in the August issue of AVN Online – but considering that one attorney has estimated that less than 5% of adult video companies are in full compliance with the current 2257 regs, and it’s impossible to tell how many Webmasters are in compliance – if you guess “less than 5%, you’re probably not too far off – it’s never too early to start thinking about what it will take to be compliant with the new ones, because rest assured, these WILL be enforced!
Some points to watch out for include:
IDs: Some forms of identification commonly used by models and performers are no longer acceptable. According to the new regulations, the only forms of identification that can be used must A) have a photograph of the individual, and B) must be “part of a system of records that can be independently accessed to verify the legitimacy of the identification card.” Driver’s licenses are fine, as are passports – U.S.-issued ones, at least; it’s unclear whether non-U.S. passports will be acceptable – but now “off the list” (what list?) are Selective Service cards, college ID cards and any other form of identification that doesn’t meet the above requirements. And on top of it all, every copy of the ID must be legible!
( Read more... )
By: Mark Kernes
07-01-2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has never inspected the records kept by producers of performers in sexually explicit photos or videos, and Attorney General John Ashcroft actually had the moxie to admit that when it came time for his required report to Congress under the PROTECT Act passed last year.
Ashcroft offered no excuses for his department’s sloth – but he did have a brand, spanking new set of regulations to propose under 18 USC 2257, the section of the U.S. Code created by the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988 which, due to a lengthy legal battle, didn’t go into effect until 1995.
The new requirements were published in the Federal Register on June 25, 2004; the public will have a chance to comment on them until August 24, and unless any changes are made (doubtful), they will take effect on that date – just in time for the Republican National Convention!
Prominent First Amendment attorney (and AVN/AVN Online legal columnist) Clyde DeWitt has written a commentary on the proposed regs which will appear in the August issue of AVN Online – but considering that one attorney has estimated that less than 5% of adult video companies are in full compliance with the current 2257 regs, and it’s impossible to tell how many Webmasters are in compliance – if you guess “less than 5%, you’re probably not too far off – it’s never too early to start thinking about what it will take to be compliant with the new ones, because rest assured, these WILL be enforced!
Some points to watch out for include:
IDs: Some forms of identification commonly used by models and performers are no longer acceptable. According to the new regulations, the only forms of identification that can be used must A) have a photograph of the individual, and B) must be “part of a system of records that can be independently accessed to verify the legitimacy of the identification card.” Driver’s licenses are fine, as are passports – U.S.-issued ones, at least; it’s unclear whether non-U.S. passports will be acceptable – but now “off the list” (what list?) are Selective Service cards, college ID cards and any other form of identification that doesn’t meet the above requirements. And on top of it all, every copy of the ID must be legible!
( Read more... )
found on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beautycorrosion's LJ...
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has banned skinheads and actors with uncombed or colored hair from performing on stage to preserve "traditional aesthetic values," the culture ministry has announced.
Regulation 47, issued last week, said the ministry had banned "all hairdos that inflict horrors, colorfully painted or dyed hair, uncombed hair, shaved heads, racy and revealing dresses and make up that goes against traditional aesthetic values" from the stage.
The communist country enforces strict censorship of all public performances, but this regulation has made some theater people unhappy.
"It is an individual's taste, and it should not be banned," Truong Nhuan, deputy director of a theater in Ho Chi Minh City was quoted by Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper as saying, referring to the latest regulation.
One man in Vietnam who probably will not be seen on stage any time soon is 73-year-old Tran Van Hay, who was in the news last week for his snake-like coil of hair, which he claims is 6.2 meters (20 feet) long.
Hay, who supplies traditional medicines to his village in southern Vietnam, is vying to get a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the world's longest hair.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=4&u=/nm/20040721/od_nm/odd_vietnam_hair_dc
beautycorrosion's LJ...HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has banned skinheads and actors with uncombed or colored hair from performing on stage to preserve "traditional aesthetic values," the culture ministry has announced.
Regulation 47, issued last week, said the ministry had banned "all hairdos that inflict horrors, colorfully painted or dyed hair, uncombed hair, shaved heads, racy and revealing dresses and make up that goes against traditional aesthetic values" from the stage.
The communist country enforces strict censorship of all public performances, but this regulation has made some theater people unhappy.
"It is an individual's taste, and it should not be banned," Truong Nhuan, deputy director of a theater in Ho Chi Minh City was quoted by Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper as saying, referring to the latest regulation.
One man in Vietnam who probably will not be seen on stage any time soon is 73-year-old Tran Van Hay, who was in the news last week for his snake-like coil of hair, which he claims is 6.2 meters (20 feet) long.
Hay, who supplies traditional medicines to his village in southern Vietnam, is vying to get a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the world's longest hair.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=4&u=/nm/20040721/od_nm/odd_vietnam_hair_dc
is KBBQ... u know who u r
also
Bondage a Go Go
wanna go?
need info?
http://www.bondage-a-go-go.com
oh
and i found this on their site
who? what? huh?
also
Bondage a Go Go
wanna go?
need info?
http://www.bondage-a-go-go.com
oh
and i found this on their site
who? what? huh?
ok... gotta get latex together
not sure what to wear.. grrr
kinda hot still...
sweats n DnG dress to dinner i think
gotta calljosienutter and pick her ass up
missC no answer foneEO
ok
time for foood~
!!
not sure what to wear.. grrr
kinda hot still...
sweats n DnG dress to dinner i think
gotta call
josienutter and pick her ass upmissC no answer foneEO
ok
time for foood~
!!