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Regulation of Child Pornography on the Internet United Kingdom Section of Regulation of Child Pornography on the Internet Cases and Materials related to Child Pornography on the Internet Compiled by Yaman Akdeniz Cite as: Yaman Akdeniz, Regulation of Child Pornography on the Internet: Cases and Materials, at http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/child.htm. Last updated November 1999. Copyright Yaman Akdeniz, 1996-1999. All Rights Reserved. No part of this database can be copied without our permission. Journalists and researchers please contact at [email protected] for permission to use materials from this database of cases and materials. This section of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) deals with the regulation of child pornography on the Internet under various jurisdictions. Child pornography is a serious concern for parents and law authorities and the Internet is unfortunately used by paedophiles to traffic in these materials. The use of the Internet facilitates their purposes but as you will see below there has been recent operations which were followed by successful prosecutions in the UK,the US and elsewhere. These pages are regularly updated and please do inform us if you know any cases which are not listed below. Please send mail to [email protected]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS ITEMS RELEVANT TO THIS SECTION (See below for the new entries) Gary Glitter, jailed for child pornography. On 13 November 1999, Gary Glitter was jailed for four months for amassing "a vast private library of child pornography". The pop star, 55, admitted downloading more than 4,000 "hard-core, sick and degrading" images of children - some as young as two - on to his laptop computer. For the details of the case see below. R v Jonathan Bowden (1999), CA (Otton LJ, Smith J, Collins J) 10/11/99 Summary: The downloading and/or printing out of computer data of indecent images of children from the Internet was capable of amounting to an offence within the meaning of s.1(1)(a) Protection of Children Act 1978. See further the BBC Online Story, "Key ruling on net child porn," November 10, 1999 in relation to this judgment - added November 1999. Case of Anthony Atkins - May 1999 BBC News coverage, Crackdown on Internet porn, February 26, 1998. Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Press Release: Back to Basics: UK Police warns the ISPs on the availability of child pornography on usenet discussion groups. - February 27, 1998. A Chapter by Yaman Akdeniz in a recent book dealing with Internet Law: 'Governance of Pornography and Child Pornography on the Global Internet: A Multi-Layered Approach,' in Edwards, L and Waelde, C eds 'Law and the Internet: Regulating Cyberspace,' 1997, Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp 223-241. |
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