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LiveJournal ToS - the best
Jun. 20th, 2005 11:28 amНиже - самое прекрасное, этоt Term of Service аппелирует к амер. закону, по которому судили Берроуза за "Naked Lunch" (произведение Берроуза в результате судебного процесса признали "не неприличным" и "литературно ценным" и опубликовали в 1962, а появись оно сегодня, были бы те же проблемы).
To what standard of decency are journals held?
LiveJournal generally holds to the standards of "indecency" set forth by the United States Supreme Court decision handed down in the case "Miller vs. California". The "Miller Test" for defining indecency sets forth three guidelines:
* The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
* the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexually explicit conduct;
* a reasonable person must find the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
In order for material to be considered indecent, it must meet these guidelines (with the exception of material that is illegal under applicable law, such as sexual images of minors). Please note that material can be "adult" without being "indecent".
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To what standard of decency are journals held?
LiveJournal generally holds to the standards of "indecency" set forth by the United States Supreme Court decision handed down in the case "Miller vs. California". The "Miller Test" for defining indecency sets forth three guidelines:
* The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
* the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexually explicit conduct;
* a reasonable person must find the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
In order for material to be considered indecent, it must meet these guidelines (with the exception of material that is illegal under applicable law, such as sexual images of minors). Please note that material can be "adult" without being "indecent".
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