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18 votes
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Clive Barker, who wrote and directed the 1987 horror flick Hellraiser, has successfully leveraged copyright law to recapture the American rights to the franchise
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Question for the European contingent regarding teenage/minor nudity
I'm aware of the more relaxed approach to sexuality and bare breasts among some European countries as compared to elsewhere in the world, but how is this viewed when it comes to teens? I've...
I'm aware of the more relaxed approach to sexuality and bare breasts among some European countries as compared to elsewhere in the world, but how is this viewed when it comes to teens? I've watched a few series in the past few months (e.g. Dark, Les Revenants, La Casa de Papel) that featured topless characters in the 15-17 age range participating in sex scenes, and while I knew the actors were definitely older than 18, I couldn't help feeling a little squicky since they were ostensibly portraying minors. Is this considered at all controversial? I imagine cultural factors like lower ages of consent or Romeo and Juliet laws might have some relevance here? I can't really draw on any examples besides those three series... I know that Mignonnes had its fair share of controversy in the US (despite not showing any actual nudity AFAIK) as it seemed to be a story on the sexualization of pubescent girls, but I never followed how it was received in France.
As a matter of fact, I'm interested in hearing from other parts of the world too.
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In a 5-4 ruling, Supreme Court sides with religious groups in a dispute over Covid-19 restrictions in New York
20 votes -
European Parliament votes for right to repair
19 votes -
Amazon's reported surveillance of workers could break Australian law, union says
7 votes -
Scottish Parliament unanimously passes a bill to provide menstrual products for free across the country
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Denmark's new consent law leaves sex workers out in the cold – they are becoming increasingly stigmatized within Danish society
10 votes -
Denmark's Minister of Agriculture has resigned over an illegal government order to cull the country's farmed mink – Mette Frederiksen also faced opposition calls to resign
7 votes -
Canada's GDPR moment: Why the Consumer Privacy Protection Act is Canada's biggest privacy overhaul in decades
10 votes -
What colour are your bits?
11 votes -
How did traffic law come to be?
5 votes -
Norway has banned hate speech against bisexual and trans people in a landmark change to its penal code
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Denmark's plans to cull seventeen million mink is facing legal obstacles after the government admitted it did not have a legal basis for the order
10 votes -
Oregon legalizes psilocybin mushrooms (for therapeutic purposes) and decriminalizes all drugs
32 votes -
Proposition 24 passes in California, pushing privacy rights to the forefront again
13 votes -
Polish government delays abortion ban after two weeks of protests across the country
26 votes -
DJ Drama, mixtapes, and the raid that changed rap
7 votes -
At least twenty municipalities have changed local laws to allow backyard chicken coops since the pandemic started
8 votes -
A legislative path to an interoperable internet
9 votes -
It's been twenty-four years since internet companies were declared off-the-hook for the behavior of their users. That may change, and soon
20 votes -
The newly legal process for turning human corpses to soil
9 votes -
Thousands of DC renters are evicted every year. Do they all know to show up to court?
10 votes -
Meet the customer service reps for Disney and Airbnb who have to pay to talk to you
29 votes -
Michigan Attorney General will no longer enforce governor’s executive orders after court ruling
11 votes -
The end of the American internet - Technology is becoming a regulated industry, and we can no longer assume that companies, products, and users will be primarily from the USA
11 votes -
The farmer that lives in the middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
4 votes -
The Online Content Policy Modernization Act is an unconstitutional mess
7 votes -
Monterey bans gas leaf blowers in residential areas
14 votes -
A crash course in CDA Section 230, and a discussion between two lawyers about the EARN IT Act and what it means for free speech and privacy online
5 votes -
Human rights and "technical protection measures" (DRM) - Lessons from twenty-two years of the US DMCA
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Are illegal strikes justified?
This question is inspired by the university of Michigan's grad student union's announcement that it will strike this week. As noted in the university's response Michigan state law prohibits state...
This question is inspired by the university of Michigan's grad student union's announcement that it will strike this week. As noted in the university's response Michigan state law prohibits state employees from striking and GEO's contract with UofM (signed in April) has a clause that prohibits work stoppages.
Are strikes performed in violation of the law (state or otherwise) or a contract justified? Why or why not?
22 votes -
Auto industry TV ads claim right-to-repair laws would benefit "sexual predators"
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Denmark's left-leaning parties have agreed to change the country's sexual violence laws to allow sex without explicit consent to be prosecuted as rape
21 votes -
Facebook announces that if Australia's proposed News Media Bargaining Code becomes law, they will no longer allow Australians to share any news on Facebook or Instagram
21 votes -
Denmark suspends Lars Findsen, head of the country's foreign intelligence service – Danish Defense Intelligence Service had initiated operations that were contrary to Danish law
9 votes -
Uber and Lyft both threaten to suspend their services in California unless the ruling requiring them to classify drivers as employees is overturned
18 votes -
The US Supreme Court justices are misusing the ‘shadow docket’
8 votes -
Social media platforms can’t be a law unto themselves
5 votes -
Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system
9 votes -
Brett Wilson judges the case for laws for robots
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Lawyers demand US Military stop violating free speech on Twitch
10 votes -
The importance of resisting excessive government surveillance
5 votes -
Brazilian General Data Protection Law – Overview and implications
4 votes -
Slack files competition complaint against Microsoft before the European Commission, alleging that tying Teams into Office is anti-competitive and illegal
10 votes -
One of the most robust laws on climate change yet has been created in Denmark – can legislation really make failing to act on climate change illegal?
5 votes -
A landmark report into the on-demand workforce commissioned by the Victorian Government has made a host of recommendations to make sure gig economy workers get the fair deal they deserve
8 votes -
Substack Defender - A legal support program for independent writers publishing newsletters on Substack
2 votes -
Vermont first state to implement a statewide ban on food waste
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Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated
8 votes