The Regulation of Internet Pornography: Issues and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780367583491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 220 str.

Abhilash Nair

Opis

This book examines the key issues and challenges in regulating internet pornography. It explores the legal issues stemming from new regulatory models adopted in the UK which imposes significant liability on the end-user consumer of pornography rather than purely on publisher and distributor of pornography.

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Introduction

Chapter 1 Internet pornography: issues and challenges

PART 1

Chapter 2 Online child pornography: Preliminary considerations

Child pornography and the internet

Jurisdictional issues

Who is a child? The age (old) problem

Chapter 3 Transformation of child pornography laws

International Initiatives

National Law

Evolution of Child Pornography Laws

Production and Distribution

Possession

Rationale of Possession Offences

Webcam Performance and Live Streaming

Self-generated Pornography and ‘Sexting’

Concluding Thoughts

Chapter 4 Virtual child pornography

Legal Responses

U.K.: Criminalising Possession

U.S.:  Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition

Future of Regulation

Chapter 5 Enforcement of child pornography laws

Regulation and Non-State Actors

Criticisms of ‘Self-Regulation’

Fair Regulation

PART 2

Chapter 6 Extreme pornography

Introduction

The Law

Criminalising Possession

Demand and Supply

Harm

Morality, Disgust, and Offence

Individual Freedoms

Power Imbalance: State v/s the Individual

Taking the Burden Away from the Consumer

PART 3

Chapter 7 Adult pornography

Introduction

Regulating Obscenity: United Kingdom

United States: Pioneer and the Problem

Regulating for Child Protection

New Regulatory Models

Staying Focused on Access Control

‘Revenge Pornography’ and other Issues

Concluding Remarks

Conclusion

Chapter 8 Regulating internet pornography

index

 

O autorze

Abhilash Nair is Senior Lecturer in Internet Law at Aston University, Birmingham. He has published widely in the area of internet pornography, and has advised various international and national bodies on regulating illegal content, content-related cybercrime and online child safety laws. He is a member of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) Evidence Working group, and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Law and Technology.