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The Supreme Court case that struck down parts of the Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA) that criminalized virtual child pornography.
Federal courts and lawmakers are wrestling with (CSAM): prosecutors treat such material as criminal under existing federal statutes in many cases, but constitutional limits from and recent district-co...
criminalizes many forms of when the image depicts a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct or is “virtually indistinguishable” from such a depiction, but enforcement hinges on several legal thresh...
Yes. Federal law makes possession and even “access with intent to view” child sexual abuse material (CSAM) a crime (18 U.S.C. §§2252, 2252A), and state laws overwhelmingly criminalize possession and o...
federal law criminalizes possession, receipt and distribution of (CSAM) and was amended in the 2000s to reach “knowingly access[ing] with intent to view” material online, but courts distinguish betwee...
The in v. struck down parts of the that criminalized “virtual child pornography” — images that appear to depict minors but were produced without using real children — holding that those provisions wer...
courts and commentators show a narrow set of defenses that have had measurable success against prosecutions for : First Amendment challenges rooted in , obscenity‑test attacks under , and factual or p...
law draws a firm line between sexual depictions involving real children—which the has treated as unprotected child pornography—and purely fictional or animated sexual content, which is regulated prima...
Federal prosecutors have used the to obtain convictions involving animated or virtual depictions of minors in sexually explicit conduct—most notably the conviction of and the plea by —while courts hav...
Federal law treats computer‑generated images that are "indistinguishable" from real children as through the definitional backbone in 18 U.S.C. § 2256 and through prosecutorial statutes such as 18 U.S....