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====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]]====


====Subject: [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====
====Subject: [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]]====


====Medium: [[:Category:Music|Music]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====
====Medium: [[:Category:Music|Music]] , [[:Category:Legislation|Legislation]]====
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'''Artist:''' Recording Industry Association of America


'''Confronting Bodies:''' Washington State
 
'''Confronting Bodies:''' Washington State Legislature and Governor Booth Gardner


'''Dates of Action:''' 1992
'''Dates of Action:''' 1992
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'''Results of Incident:''' Four months after it took effect, Washington state's law repealed in October, 1992 by a Superior Court Judge in Seattle.
'''Results of Incident:''' Four months after it took effect, Washington state's law repealed in October, 1992 by a Superior Court Judge in Seattle.


'''Source:''' ACLU Arts Censorship Project Newsletter, Fall 1992
'''Source:''' ACLU Arts Censorship Project Newsletter, Fall 1992 and [http://www.theroc.org/roc-mag/textarch/roc-09/roc09-04.htm More Information]


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Latest revision as of 17:22, 8 August 2011

Date: 1992

Region: North America

Subject: Explicit Sexuality

Medium: Music , Legislation



Confronting Bodies: Washington State Legislature and Governor Booth Gardner

Dates of Action: 1992

Location: Washington state

Description of Artwork: Recordings deemed "erotic" by a judge in one locality.

The Incident: The law, which extended the state's already existing "harmful to minors" law to cover sound recordings, forced record stores around the state to place "adults only" labels on recordings which were deemed "erotic." Anyone who sold a labeled recording to a minor could have been fined or jailed.

Results of Incident: Four months after it took effect, Washington state's law repealed in October, 1992 by a Superior Court Judge in Seattle.

Source: ACLU Arts Censorship Project Newsletter, Fall 1992 and More Information