"Stark also examined a random sample of search-engine queries. Stark analyzed the information collected from ISPs and search engine companie when the Justice Department subpoenaed them. Stark, a statistics professor at University of California, Berkeley. The article discusses COPA and Congress' previous attempts to end explicit adult content online before it gets more into this study conducted by Philip B. "About 1 percent of Web sites indexed by Google and Microsoft are sexually explicit, according to a U.S. * Future Airings: Basic Instinct the edited version will be shown Nov. * Plot Outline: A police detective played by Michael Douglas is in charge of an investigation of a brutal murder in which a beautiful and seductive woman played by Sharon Stone could be involved.
The library is now doing more to let patrons know about the adult content films in the collection, said Casey.
She (Egelkraut) just hasn't picked them up yet," said Marsy Humphrey, Friends of the Library liaison. "I'm sure there are other movies out there that are equally graphic. "I've never been sued by the MPAA, but a friend of mine was sued by the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and it was not a pretty experience," Finch said. One suggestion was to give the film a rating of R because the film is the unrated director's cut, but the library cannot change its rating to an R since the Motion Picture Association of America gave it the NR rating, said Finch. The waiver would not require going backward and grandfathering in current patrons.Ĭurrently, if a parent checks the box to allow a child to check out any material from the library, that means a child is not prevented from checking out any video or book in the library collection based upon a content criteria, said Judy Casey, library director.Ĭasey said, if a parent gives permission on a child's library card to check out any material, it's not up to the library to interfere with the parent's decision. "My job is to find the films that have significant cultural impact."īrice Wagner, a member of the board, suggested a new waiver that would require parental guardians of new patrons younger than age 18 either to allow or deny their child to see films with violence, nudity, sexual and derogatory language. "I really don't have an opinion on this," said Robert Finch, reference librarian for the Rogers Public Library. Library patron Nieves Egelkraut asked the Library Board of Trustees in October to remove the film after she randomly checked it out and found it to be sexually graphic and violent.
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The Rogers Library Board approved three motions Tuesday to keep the film 'Basic Instinct' on the library shelves, label the video case with an adult-content sticker and update the permission waivers that parental guardians must sign for new patrons under the age of 18.
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ROGERS - The controversial 1992 film 'Basic Instinct' will remain a part of the collection of between 8,000 and 10,000 videos cataloged in the Rogers Public Library.īut the movie will now have a warning label to inform library patrons of its adult content. Here is a little disconcerting news from our friends up in Rogers, straight from the NWA Times:Ĭontroversial film to remain on library shelf By Melissa Blakely
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So we don't have a good solution about how to prevent families and young children from seeing these things," he told LJ. "We have families and young children who come in the library. Around the beginning of November, Worrell said, "People who had never used the library for any other reasons were coming in strictly to access pornography, and in increasing numbers." Staff and patrons complained. The three terminals are situated in the middle of the library's main space, about 15 feet from the reference desk, and reconfiguring the library would be difficult because it was recently renovated. "It's been a really difficult situation for us to manage," library director Donald Worrell said. Clemens Public Library in suburban Detroit decided to suspend Internet access until a new policy is devised. On November 27, after Internet users were known to be persistently looking at pornography on three computer terminal reserved for adults, managers of the Mt. Michigan PL Suspends Internet Access After Porn Complaints
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