NEW YORK CITY — The city government of New York City has proposed rules that would require photographers and film/video makers of all kinds to get permits and million dollar insurance policies to shoot any footage within the city bounds.The Mayor’s Office of Film,...

TAMPA, FL — British teenager Lara Jade Coton is suing TVX Films for its unauthorized and uncompensated use of a self-portrait that she had on her website. TVX used a lightly-doctored-in-Photoshop version of Coton’s image as the cover and main disc image for the re-release...

SWEDEN — Most people old enough to be great-grandparents are still a little shy about uber modern technology, including the internet. A 75-year-old newbie to all that is broadband recently went faster and farther than anyone else in her neighborhood – and most likely, any...

DETROIT, MI — Last week, the Detroit City Council decided that four local strip clubs could sell their club permits to new owners, signaling a positive change in the city’s view on adult entertainment. The city had previously denied the transfer of permits, resulting in...

CYBERSPACE — Despite Jenna Jameson’s reported insistence to the media at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego that Oscar-nominated mainstream actress Scarlett Johannson would be portraying her in an upcoming film, Johannson’s people say that it isn’t so.A spokesperson for...

CYBERSPACE — Multiple online Hollywood gossip sites are reporting that Scarlett Johansson has agreed to play the lead role in the film version of Jenna Jameson’s autobiography, How To Make Love Like A Porn Star. The movie is alleged to be coming from Universal and Jameson...

WASHINGTON, DC — What the right hand of the government claims it can’t abide, the left hand doles out as radio station call letters, apparently. Such has certainly proven to be the case for KUNT, a currently non-existent, low-power digital television station in Wailuku,...

CYBERSPACE — While The Simpsons Movie topped the weekend box office with over $71 million dollars taken in (cue Montgomery Burns-like hand writhing and chuckling), Twentieth Century Fox’s legal department fended off a cybersquatter.Visitors to TheSimpsonsMovie.com —...

LOS ANGELES — David Hans Schmidt, known for his penchant for discovering and selling celebrity porn materials to various parties, was arrested by the FBI this week for his alleged role in an extortion plot involving Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.Schmidt, who according to The...

WASHINGTON, DC — Fed up with the impossibility of keeping track of the latest and not-so-greatest changes in 2257 regulations? Wondering if a degree in database management might have been less stressful than a career in erotic photography? Confused by how many childhood...