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<div>On 9/24/2014 5:41 PM, Jonathan Kelley
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<h2 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,155,201);font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.ftrf.org/blogpost/852091/198175/FTRF-files-suit-against-Arizona-nude-image-law" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,155,201);text-decoration:none">FTRF files
suit against Arizona nude image law</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday, the Freedom to Read Foundation
joined several other organizations and bookstores in filing a
lawsuit in federal court against Arizona House Bill 2515,
which makes it a felony "to intentionally disclose, display,
distribute, publish, advertise, or offer a photograph,
viodeotape, film or digital recording of another person in a
state of nudity or engaged in specific sexual activities if
the person knows or should have known that the depicted person
has not consented to the disclosure."<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The suit asserts that the law violates the
First Amendment, in that it is overbroad, vague, not narrowly
tailored to achieve its stated goal, and is a content-based
restriction on constitutionally protected speech. <a href="http://mediacoalition.org/files/Antigone-Books-Horne-complaint.pdf" target="_blank">Read
the full complaint here.</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The law, whose putative target is "revenge
porn" (that is, the malicious online posting of explicit
photos by aggrieved ex-lovers), in fact cuts a much broader
swath: the complaint lists a number of every day situations in
which libraries, booksellers, journalists, artists, and others
could be prosecuted for distribution of protected speech that
is historic, educational, artistic, and/or newsworthy in
nature.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The suit, <i>Antigone Books v. Horne</i>, was
coordinated by Media Coalition and the ACLU. Media Coalition
has created a wonderful <a href="http://mediacoalition.org/antigone-books-v-horne/" target="_blank">Q&A</a> that
explains the case and discusses the reasons for the lawsuit
and the law's problematic reach. Included in that is this,
specifically regarding the concerns of librarians:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Q7: What can booksellers and librarians do
to comply with the law?<br>
A: The threat of going to prison means every bookseller and
librarian is responsible for every book, magazine newspaper
and video they carry. To follow the law, they would have to
review each picture in every book and magazine they carry,
which would be an almost impossible task. They would also have
to determine whether each picture violates the law, without
knowing the circumstances surrounding each photograph. Many
booksellers and librarians will decline to carry material that
includes nude images, rather than risk prosecution, even
though they have a constitutional right to sell this material.<br>
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The law also affects their customers and patrons. If
booksellers and librarians are forced to remove any material
that includes a nude photo, customers and patrons are deprived
of their right to purchase and borrow these materials. That
means you would not be able to purchase an issue of National
Geographic at the bookstore and you won’t be able to borrow
art books that include nude images from the library.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The ACLU also has an <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech-national-security-technology-and-liberty/arizonas-naked-photo-law-makes-free-speech" target="_blank">excellent
blog post</a> explaining plaintiffs' objections to the law.
There has been extensive media coverage already of this
case: <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span>KVOA (NBC affiliate in
Tucson): <a href="http://www.kvoa.com/news/aclu-local-booksellers-file-federal-lawsuit-against-revenge-porn-law/" target="_blank">ACLU,
local booksellers, file federal lawsuit against ‘revenge
porn’ law</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span>New York Times: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/09/23/us/ap-us-xgr-revenge-porn.html?_r=0" target="_blank">ACLU
Sues Over Arizona ‘Revenge Porn’ Bill</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span>WIRED: <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/09/arizona-send-prison-sharing-nude-celebrity-pictures/" target="_blank">Arizona’s
Law Against Revenge Porn: Nice Try, But It Makes All Nudes
Illegal</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Joining FTRF as plaintiffs are five Arizona
booksellers (including Antigone Books), the American
Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Association of
American Publishers, the National Press Photographers
Association, and Voice Media Group, publisher of the Phoenix
New Times and other alternative newspapers.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jonathan Kelley<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Program Officer<u></u><u></u></p>
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