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What are the actual US Laws pertaining to Poser Renders?

Is there a distinction made in  US laws on images between nude images and sexual images?

 

You're going to need a lawyer to answer the questions you have.

However, you need to be aware that Renderosity has the right to set their own standards of what's acceptable, as long as they are more restrictive then the laws.

General discussions about US laws on the topic really don't belong in Renderosity's forums.

No offense, obviously RMP has its own TOS. I don't think this thread is about RMP TOS. I do not show images here so it is of no consequence to me what the image TOS is but I think a forum on use of Poser is a legitamite place to ask what the US law is in regards to images created with Poser.

Of course if I wished to make erotic images or images of persons under age 21 I could employ the services of a US Law lawyer to interpret the statutes for me but since I do not intend to make such images it would be an expensive way to satisfy my curiosity :) It is odd though if no one in America can even hazard a guess at what images are legal and what images are not legal in that place.

How can artist's function in an environment where they no not the law possibly applied? Is the film "Taxi Driver" legal? Or the film "The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane" with the same child actress appearing (or body double) totally nude in a sexual scene of a character 13 years if I recall. I read that the new Geremey Irons "Lolita" showed simulated sex with minor actress. BTW I hate the American use of the word "Lolita" as anyone who reads the book understands she is an innocent victom whose life is utterly destroyed and in no way a "suductress"! The ending of the book is devastating more than even the rest.

Anyway, I find it odd if nobody knows or can point to litterature of reference regarding what US law is on CG images. Clearly I would not expect definitive legal  finding as that is obtained in court, issues of copyright for instance would not require legthy littigation if all answers were clear cut, yet in copyright forum of RMP people do hazzard basic understandings of pertinant law.

E.G. Digital character percieved as under age of 21 years may not be created in nude or sexual render in USA.

Please no offense or flame. I am just curious what the basic common understanding of the law is? It seems to me common sense would be no human head less the eighteen on nude render and no small chested narrow hipped body rendered nude without 45 years age plus head is sensible but is anywhere it indicated what the actual matter of laws is? This seems legitamite Poser topic IMHO :)