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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>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
        <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>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
        <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>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
        <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>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
        <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>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><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>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>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.ftrf.org/" target="_blank">Freedom to Read Foundation</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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