[Frameworks] Production Code

[Chuck Kleinhans]

On Oct 29, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Sasha Janerus wrote:

It's worth bearing in mind that the Code engendered indirect, de facto censorship on the level of availability and reliability of lab services. The legit labs would routinely destroy, confiscate or forward to law enforcement materials they deemed prurient or deviant. Don't know what sort precautions, if any, Markopoulos took, but would be interested.


I really don't think this activity by labs had anything to do with the Production Code.  Rather it had to do with criminal law and existing statutes on obscene and pornographic image material.  To fail to turn this material over to police was itself a criminal act.  As indeed, today, it is required that all such labs in the US, alert  legal authroities if still and moving image material of children in sexual situations is discovered.

Chuck Kleinhans

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