COM 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Carbon Black, Learned Hand, Payne Fund Studies
5 Apr 2017
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In the u. s. , power to censor obscene materials was vested on the postal service (probably unconstitutionally) Industry-funded agencies: locally on social, political, and religious organizations, extension to the hicklin rule, england"s hicklin rule was readily adopted by u. s. courts in order to censor. Movies (the payne fund studies of the 1920s) The 1986 meese commission on porno: defining obscenity, the words obscene and obscenity are usually defined in terms of other words equally as difficult to define, all ultimately involving a subjective judgement. Offensive to chastity of mind or modesty lewd indecent: such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law and the general corruption of morals, rosen vs. Obscene, lewd, or lascivious. : judge learned hand noted further that the hicklin rule reduced society"s. In ruling that the novel ulysses was not obscene, judge john woolsey made three changes in the hicklin rule"s definition of obscenity: 1) the work must be judged as a whole.
