SALT LAKE CITY – Twenty-five years ago, it was rare to see anything porn-related in the news, outside of the occasional headline about an obscenity prosecution, or the occasional pearl-clutching opinion piece in a local newspaper about adult stores (allegedly) ruining property...

LOS ANGELES – A court has dismissed a lawsuit filed in November by Playboy against Boing Boing which alleged direct, vicarious and/or contributory copyright infringement. In dismissing Playboy’s complaint, however, the judge left room for Playboy to file a second amended...

NEW YORK – The statement released by Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen explaining (and for the first time, admitting to) a payment made to Stormy Daniels raises far more questions than it answers. One of those questions: Why is so much of the reporting on Cohen’s...

PASADENA, Calif. – Back in the summer of 2015, Teofil Brank (better known as “Jarec Wentworth,” the name under which he performed in gay porn) was convicted on six counts in connection with a scheme to extort Florida billionaire Donald Burns, the former chairman of the Board of...

TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Senate this week became the latest legislative body to pass a resolution declaring pornography a “public health hazard,” passing Senate Resolution 1723 by a vote of 35-4. As with similar resolutions passed by other state legislatures, SR 1723 draws a...

SAN FRANCISCO – When Kink.com announced last year that it was planning to cease producing content at the San Francisco Armory, owner Peter Ackworth sounded more than a little wistful about the prospect of leaving the historic building behind. “It’s a little sad,” Acworth said at...

RICHMOND, Va. – A recent copyright ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals underlines several aspects of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which are important to understand for those who operate websites which depend on the...

VENICE, Calif. – In recent years, few technological developments or new platforms for content delivery have generated as much buzz as the emerging field of virtual reality. Intuitively, long before VR headsets were available on the market, entrepreneurs, technologists and...

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia is the latest state to contemplate passing a version of the legislation known as the Human Trafficking Prevention Act (HTPA), which has been introduced to the General Assembly there as HB 1592. As with iterations of the HTPA under consideration in other...

CHICAGO – A federal judge in Illinois has dismissed all but one of the claims brought by Flava Works Inc. against myVidster.com, after finding that the Flava Works complaint “fails to identify even a single infringed work.” U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman also found Flava...