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Obscene Publications Act



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Bikini-clad Brooke Shields replaces nude childhood pic in British gallery

Washington, October 14- ANI: Brooke Shields nude photo as a child in a U.K. gallery has been replaced by one sporting a bikini over fears that it would have breached Britains Obscene Publications Act.

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Shields' Controversial Childhood Snap Replaced

A controversial nude portrait of as a child has been replaced in a U.K. gallery by a photo of the actress sporting a bikini.Exhibition organisers at the Tate Modern in London removed artist Richard Prince's image earlier this month over fears it breached the U.K.'s Obscene Publications Act. The picture, entitled Spiritual America, depicted Shields at 10 years old in 1975, wearing heavy...

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Brooke Shields - Shields Controversial Childhood Snap Replaced

A controversial nude portrait of BROOKE SHIELDS as a child has been replaced in a U.K. gallery by a photo of the actress sporting a bikini.Exhibition organisers at the Tate Modern in London removed artist Richard Prince's image earlier this month (Oct09) over fears it breached the U.K.'s Obscene Publications Act. The picture, entitled Spiritual America, depicted Shields at 10 years old...

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Abstention from state interference maximises society's potential

... likely to come in contact with it.That is how Lord Cockburn defined it in 1868, excising from the Obscene Publications Act 1857 the intent to corrupt morals, which its mover, Lord Campbell, had assured parliament was the Bill’s sole target, and substituting whatever a jury decided to make of the book.What then were corruption and depravity? Lord Birkett, an advocate of long experience,...

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Art or Porn? Museum Pulls Brooke Shields Image

The Obscene Publications Committee, a division of the Metropolitan Police department in London, requested the temporary removal of the piece, on the grounds that it might violate the Obscene Publications Act of 1964, which states its intention to "strengthen the law for preventing the publication for gain of obscene matter."

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Nude Shields photo may break UK law, say police (update Thursday)

The nude photo of Brooke Shields as a child actress - removed from the Tate Modern just hours before it was due to go on show - may break the Obscene Publications Act if displayed, say police.

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Lady Chatterley et al.

... 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' trial, when in 1960 an attempt was made to ban the book under 1959 The Obscene Publications Act. As with most such events it was a case of all publicity is good publicity, and the book was probably far more widely read as a result. Similarly the autobiography 'Spycatcher' by Peter Wright, about his work for MI5, was banned in England between 1985 and 1988,...

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Brooke Shields photographer 'disappointed' by police pornography claim

... Wednesday. They are consulting the Crown Prosecution Service over whether the image breaches the Obscene Publications Act. Related Articles The provocative picture by New York artist Richard Prince shows Shields standing naked in a bathtub, with a heavily made-up face and oiled torso. Children's campaigners had condemned the Tate for including the picture in their latest exhibition,...

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Brooke Shields picture withdrawn from Tate exhibition after police visit

Officers from the Metropolitan Police attended the gallery yesterday. They are consulting the Crown Prosecution Service over whether the image breaches the Obscene Publications Act.