wheatpenny opened this issue on Mar 21, 2005 ยท 425 posts
AntoniaTiger posted Mon, 21 March 2005 at 1:35 PM
Posting from Great Britain, where the law explicitly states that indecent pictures of somebody over-18 who happens to look underage are illegal. Over the years there have been several cases in the USA which are relevant. Most important, Renderosity could be prosecuted anywhere in the USA, under the local State Law, using that State's precedents on what sorts of image are indecent, and hence illegal. But the question about the Shirtless-Boy-On-The-Beach does seem to me to show the point at which things have gone too far. And there is a certain Disney movie in which the central character is a topless boy. Yes, I know that doing a render inspired by "The Jungle Book" could be a TOS breach for all sorts of other reasons, but even if Walt Disney himself were a Renderosity member he couldn't post a Mowgli image to the gallery. I understnad the reasons for this caution. I wouldn't want to have to pay the legal bills to fight off a criminal prosecuation. But the world we're in is insane.