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Summary: Obscenity Regulations In The Film Industry

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There are several regulations that exist in the film industry. There have been many obscenity regulations in the history of art and motion pictures. In the 1957 case of Roth v. United States, the Supreme Court came up with certain criteria in order to decide whether or not to censor a piece of work. For example, the work must have some sort of artistic value and must have dominant sexual
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