cleanfeed and wikipedia

[Ian Batten]

On 09 Dec 08, at 1532, Nicholas Bohm wrote:
>
> And the problem, I suspect, is that many, perhaps even all,  
> prosecutions
> will be of people who have images which are reasonably serious in  
> their
> indecency, with milder ones amongst them.  Do they in practice take to
> the jury the question whether the milder ones cross the threshhold?  I
> have my doubts whether it is easy to deduce where the line lies.

Why would they need to?  If they're convicted of making some number of  
clearly offending images, why waste everyone's time arguing about the  
edge-cases?  I would guess that the last thing a prosecutor would want  
to do would be to open up the spectre of the jury deciding to pick  
through all the images and decide which ones are infringing and which  
ones aren't.

ian