Posted by JupaMan on July 25, 2010 under Adult Legal News | 
Health officials in Miami-Dade County, Fla., last week said they will investigate a complaint alleging the adult movie industry’s refusal to require condoms on all sets violates state laws aimed at restricting the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
In January, Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation — a mainstream advocacy organization that claims to be the largest non-profit HIV-AIDS healthcare provider in the U.S. — filed a complaint against three Miami-based adult companies and one based in Beverly Hills, Calif. All four — Bang Brothers Films, Josh Stone Productions, Reality Kings Productions and Hustler Video — produce sexually explicit content in Florida and do not require performers wear condoms. According to AHF, the lack of condoms on adult movie sets puts performers at risk of contracting and spreading HIV-AIDS and other STDs.
In addition, “They set a bad example,” AHF President Michael Weinstein told United Press International. “A lot of young people get their sex education from porn. They find daddy’s DVD or go online.”
Bang Brothers attorney Lawrence Walters called the investigation “a tempest in a teapot,” saying the adult industry voluntarily adheres to a testing protocol meant to safeguard the health and wellbeing of performers and cannot be held responsible for what viewers read into adult films. He also suggested AHF’s relentless efforts to encourage state legislatures and local health departments to require condoms on sets represent an effort to kill the adult entertainment industry.
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Music industry giant Warner Music Group has filed a federal lawsuit against Reality Kings and its parent company, RK Netmedia Inc., alleging the internet pornography producer has infringed the copyright on dozens of recordings owned by Warner labels.
Filed July 7 in Los Angeles, the 44-page complaint claims Reality Kings committed “deliberate and brazen exploitation of Plaintiff’s sound recordings and musical compositions in hundreds of extreme hardcore pornographic videos, without any consent or authorization from Plaintiffs.”
Plaintiffs include Warner Bros Records, Electra Entertainment Group, Atlantic Recording Corporation, Bad Boy Records and Asylum Records.
“Defendant’s use of Plaintiff’s recordings and musical compositions is no accident,” the complaint states. “Each of the Plaintiff’s works is featured prominently, in the foreground of the video, and serves as a focal point for the visual content.” In addition, the alleged infringement “of the most blatant and offensive kind” employs Warner-owned song titles in the names of the pornographic video segments on RealityKings.com.
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Posted by JupaMan on July 24, 2010 under Adult Legal News, Adult News |
Hey Perves,
I expected to see this more and more often, however I just never expected it to be this fast specially after the trial of Mr. Stagliano
As reported by Xbiz.com:
PITTSBURGH — Right Ascension Inc., which does business as Adult DVD Empire, has been charged with violating obscenity laws.
Federal prosecutors filed the suit July 22 at U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, charging that the company mailed four DVDs containing obscene material to an Erie post office box in May 2007.
The four DVDs are identified as “A Bounty of Pain,” “Shattering Krystal” from Dan Hawke Productions, “Extreme Tit Torture 18” from Bon Vue Studios and “Pussy Torture 8″ from director Rick Savage.
Nobody has been available to comment as of the time of this post, but we will keep you posted as more develops.
Till next time, theJupaMan, one eye helmet head, and vitamin evil
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Posted by JupaMan on February 10, 2008 under Adult Legal News |
Coyotes Ugly
by Kathee Brewer
MILFORD, PA — True to their word, Milford Township officials have begun the process of evaluating whether a gentlemen’s cabaret can continue to operate in their comfortable Philadelphia, PA, suburb.
On Wednesday night, a public meeting allowed area residents to share their thoughts about the town’s only adult-entertainment business, Coyotes Show Club. According to PhillyBurbs.com, more than 100 Milford residents and interested parties from neighboring cities turned out for the meeting.
Some consider the issue a moral one.
“We would like them all to go home,” Ken Dieterly reportedly said before the hearing began. “If they want to have a restaurant, we might patronize it, but not a strip club. We think strip clubs are morally bad.”
Gina Adornetto added, “I have children. I certainly wouldn’t want my 15-year-old daughter, when she’s of age, to get a job there, or her friends.”
Adornetto also said the club would leave a bad impression of Milford in the minds of visitors who encountered it along the Pennsylvania Turnpike at the outskirts of town. Other residents acknowledged the club was one way — if a less-than-optimal one from their perspectives — that the club’s owners could make a go of things in a location that hasn’t been hospitable to other types of businesses. A restaurant previously located at the site closed due to lack of interest.
Glen McGogney, the attorney for the cabaret, said those who oppose the club should know it has a top-notch security force, is kept “immaculately clean” and will not be a hotbed for illegal activity.
As might be expected, out-of-towners with their own agendas also attended the meeting. Six members of the King’s Men, an anti-pornography religious group, stood in the back of the room holding signs that made their feelings quite clear: “Protect Your Children Now — Fight Porn” one exhorted.
“We’re the community, and we think we set the standards when it comes to obscenity,” King’s Men President Mark Houck of Quakertown said. “We want to tell the township officials we don’t want this in our community. When you bring in this kind of business, crime goes up, sexual deviancy goes up. We don’t want our kids to be exposed to it.”
If the township can’t run the club out of town completely, Houck said he hopes town fathers will at least install restrictions that would prohibit many of the popular activities at such venues — like lap dances.
Milford and Coyotes have been involved in a contentious feud about the club’s presence since it opened in mid-December. According to town officials, the club opened without a proper license and may be too near a public park to comply with the community’s zoning ordinances. In late December, the town obtained two restraining orders, one federal and one local, barring adult entertainment. Coyotes subsequently sued, claiming Milford’s zoning unconstitutionally restricts free speech. In early January, the two sides reached a compromise that allows Coyotes to continue operating while the township considers a zoning variance that would allow it to remain in open indefinitely. Under the terms of the compromise, a final decision must be reached by March 28th.
Although many area residents reportedly oppose Coyotes’ operation, some do not.
“It seems like a decent place,” Reggie Heffelfinger told PhillyBurbs.com. He and his wife visited the club and enjoyed the experience, he said. “[It’s] very clean; very professional. I don’t see a problem with this.”
Coyotes’ owners reserved the right to return their dispute to court if the township doesn’t give them an answer they like.
Coyotes isn’t the only cabaret in the Philadelphia area to cause a public outcry. Nearby Wilkes-Barre and Gentleman’s Club 10 have waged an ugly four-year battle over similar issues. Under applicable law, municipalities must schedule a hearing on adult-entertainment matters within a specified number of days after an application is filed. Wilkes-Barre officials never scheduled a hearing for Gentleman’s Club 10, according to court records, so the cabaret called for automatic approval of its business license, as was its option under the law. The city balked, and the matter ended up in court, where Gentleman’s Club 10 prevailed in 2006.
But that’s not the end of the story. Since then, the town has tried to squeeze Gentleman’s Club 10 out with zealous enforcement of a new “decency law” that requires all dancers to be at least 20 feet from patrons and bans touching.
“You can’t outlaw these places, but you can control and regulate the conduct that’s in there to the point where it is not desirable to do business here,” Wilkes-Barre’s attorney, Bruce Phillips, told PhillyBurbs.com
Gentleman’s Club 10 claims it is not subject to the decency law, because it was operating before the law was passed.
“We told them we don’t recognize this,” club owner Sal Scalzo responded. “They did this post-permitting… All they’ve done is create a monopoly for us.”
The county reportedly will tackle the issue later this year.
Coopersburg has been fighting both a cabaret and a swingers club. It managed to close the swingers club in exchange for dropping a mountain of fines levied against the owners, but borough officials continue to battle Silhouette Showbar over nude dancing.
After the Coyotes situation erupted in Milford, Quakertown rushed to draft ordinances restricting adult entertainment before any venues sneaked inside its borders.
“The common purveying of sexually intonated entertainment is not good for the fabric of the local community or America,” Quakertown Council President Jim Roberts told PhillyBurbs.com
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Posted by JupaMan on February 6, 2008 under Adult Legal News, Adult News |
Station sunk by financial woes, owner said.
By Justin Bourne
Posted: 12:42 PM PST Feb 05, 2008
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Internet-based radio and TV station KSEX closed its doors Monday, possibly for good.
According to owner Jon Belinkie, the station struggled financially over the past 22 months.
“I believe KSEX had been hurting monetarily since the death of its founder, Mick Rick, which was long before my involvement,” Belinkie told AVN Online. “The constant battles with staff, on-air personalities and slow- to non-paying sponsors and advertisers hemorrhaged enough money to cripple the station, and I’m done.”
A deal for Vavoom Media Group to acquire KSEX fell apart on the eve of finalization, and the station’s partnership with Rude.com proved volatile after Rude’s $20,000 giveaway on KSEX in December 2007 collapsed into chaos.
“There have been a number of strategic partnerships discussed over recent months with a variety or players – both individual and corporate – to keep KSEX alive, but timing is of the essence,” Belinkie said.
Belinkie said offers to buy KSEX are being entertained, but the sum of the station’s parts may be worth more than the whole.
“I continue to believe KSEX is a tremendous business opportunity due to its unique industry niche position,” he said, “but the reality exists that KSEX might be carved up and sold off.”
Dan Leal, aka Porno Dan, formerly KSEX’s sales director and a show host, agreed.
“Unfortunately, between the potential sale of the domain names, say with Moniker, and the distribution of content, et cetera, KSEX is probably worth a lot more being split up and sold off in sections,” Leal told AVN Online. “It’s a shame, and we will all have to wait to see what happens.”
Belinkie said he takes “full responsibility for some of the choices that I could have made differently.”
“I regret also the fact that KSEX was unable to achieve its full potential during these last two years,” he said. “The time lost was hard to recover. Nevertheless, I still believe it can be a great company and has a unique place in the industry.”
Belinkie said his first eight months at KSEX consisted of being part of a company that went out of business.
“It took time to get control of KSEX and get in the driver’s seat,” he said. “The next five months were consumed by differences of opinion between Wayne C. Lewis, aka Wankus, and myself, as to how the business should be run.”
Lewis was unavailable for comment Tuesday.
Following Lewis’ exit from KSEX in May 2007, Joe Brandi was brought on as vice president, with the aid of Program Director Lorrainiac, Brandi’s longtime friend. After seven months, Brandi resigned in an on-air phone call during Lorrainiac’s show.
“People sometimes have different ideas about the paths a company should take, and I finally arrived at a decision that it just wasn’t a good fit,” Brandi told AVN Online. “KSEX owner Jon Belinkie and I just had too many issues that we did not agree with, in respects to people and business operations.”
Belinkie said he hopes KSEX’s doors won’t be closed for good.
“It would be a tremendous shame if [that] were to happen,” he said. “KSEX is on the edge of a cliff. If it’s going to live, someone needs to step up fast.”
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Posted by JupaMan on January 26, 2008 under Adult Legal News |
–NY Times
New Jersey- AS a woman in a bikini top and sweat pants walked to her car in 30-degree weather from the Stiletto nude-dancing club this month, little more than the weeds and warehouses in the shadow of the Meadowlands Sports Complex were within viewing distance.
Such isolation for a club like Stiletto is exactly what the Borough of Carlstadt wants, as its zoning laws specify that sexually oriented businesses are permitted to operate only in this industrial part of town.
An adult video store on Washington Avenue called Video Extra, with lingerie-clad mannequins in the windows, is a different story. The borough is suing to have that store, which sits next to a shoe shop and across from a popular Italian restaurant, shuttered on the grounds that it is in an area not zoned for that type of business, officials said.
Across the state more than a dozen towns have passed zoning laws to regulate sexually oriented businesses, as Carlstadt has done, according to the New Jersey State League of Municipalities. Like Carlstadt, a Bergen County borough of 6,000, many have faced challenges.
“The attempt to regulate these businesses has gone on for a very long time,” said Deborah M. Kole, a lawyer for the municipalities organization.
It is unconstitutional to completely ban sexually oriented businesses, said William J. Roseman, the Carlstadt mayor, so municipal zoning laws are “the only way we can control adult entertainment establishments from running profligate within our community.”
He said the zoning restrictions had been a success, reducing the number of sexually oriented businesses in the borough to two from six and contributing to a decline in the number of people arrested for prostitution and being drunk and disorderly.
Daniel R. Aaronson, a First Amendment lawyer based in West Palm Beach, Fla., who represents the club Hott 22 in a lawsuit against Union Township, said that the zoning laws make it so difficult for sexually oriented businesses to operate that they have the effect of keeping them out of business.
“They target these specific businesses, and that’s unconstitutional,” he said.
Last summer, East Rutherford officials made public plans to zone an industrial area near the Meadowlands for sexually oriented businesses to keep them away from schools, houses of worship and residential neighborhoods. There are no sexually oriented businesses in East Rutherford today, nor do any have imminent plans to move in, but should that change the borough will be ready, Councilman Jeffrey Lahullier said.
“If we don’t have that zoning ordinance on the book, we have no power to stop them,” he said.
Bloomingdale, in Passaic County, has taken similar pre-emptive action. The borough, which officials say has no sexually oriented businesses, passed zoning laws like Carlstadt’s last year to control them should they come to town.
“We were just trying to keep ourselves up to date on stuff,” Mayor William R. Steenstra said.
In Cherry Hill, the fight to limit sexually oriented businesses has moved into the realm of state government, where two bills introduced by Assemblywoman Pamela R. Lampitt, whose district includes Cherry Hill, have been heard in committee.
Ms. Lampitt said she introduced the bills, which would require sexually oriented businesses to post security guards to keep out minors and to notify neighborhoods of their intent to move in, after her neighbors in the Barclay Farm area expressed anxiety over an adult bookstore they said was set to open next to the neighborhood.
“It was reactionary, to be honest,” Ms. Lampitt said. “It’s not something that unless a problem arises do we think, ‘What do we need to do to fix things?’ ”
Last year the township created a district in an industrial zone in which sexually oriented businesses could operate, said Dan Keashen, a spokesman for Mayor Bernie Platt. One adult bookstore had operated in town but closed recently, and there is no word on the store that was rumored to be opening near the Barclay Farm neighborhood, officials said.
Jeff Levy, the executive director of the New Jersey Adult Cabaret Association, which represents 180 so-called exotic dancing clubs, said he resented sexually oriented businesses being banished to the corners of towns but agreed that they do not belong near schools or houses of worship.
Permitting exotic dancing clubs in specified districts is preferable to the litigation that often accompanies efforts to open them in other parts of towns, he said.
Adam Orecchio, manager of Stiletto in Carlstadt, said that since the club —which does not sell alcohol — opened in 1996, there had been no complaints from borough officials or neighboring businesses.
“We do well here,” he said. “And we’ve never heard anything from anybody in town.”
The decision to create a district for sexually oriented businesses in Carlstadt in the late 1990s was made for financial reasons, Mayor Roseman said, after a chain restaurant said it would not open in the borough because it would have to do business near a strip club that has since closed.
“The owner said to me, ‘How do I run a family restaurant when there’s a sign next door’ ” advertising sexually themed entertainment? Mr. Roseman said.
The mayor said the Video Extra store was still a headache for the borough. One Bergen County judge ordered it closed because it violated zoning laws, but another judge ruled that it could reopen, he said.
It remains too soon to gauge the effects the zoning laws may have on the towns and their sexually oriented businesses, said Mr. Levy, the cabaret association official.
“I think you will have to look back 10 years from now and say: ‘Did it work? Did we create something positive?’ ” he said. “I don’t know.”
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Posted by JupaMan on under Adult Legal News |
by Kathee Brewer
MEMPHIS, TN — An ordinance that took effect January 1st requires workers at adult-oriented businesses and the owners of those businesses to be licensed annually before they’re allowed to work in Shelby County.
Bartenders, waitresses, dancers, bouncers, store clerks, movie-theater employees, and others at the county’s more than two dozen adult establishments must undergo criminal background checks and complete county license applications or change careers.
The documentation required to be submitted with a license application is similar to that required under 18 USC §2257: a certified copy of a birth certificate, multiple current photographs, a government-issued identification document (driver’s license, military ID or passport, for example) and a Social Security number. The fee for an initial employee license is $198; renewals cost a minimum of $113.
Background checks will be conducted by sheriff’s deputies and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. A history of prostitution, rape (including statutory rape), sexual battery, public indecency, pandering, sale or distribution of obscene materials, or other illegal activities can keep a worker or business owner from being licensed by the five-member Shelby County Adult Oriented Establishment Board.
The board’s members include a doctor, a former county employee, a local businessman, a consultant, and a former criminal-court judge.
Although the new ordinance is somewhat controversial, County Commissioner Wyatt Bunker told the city’s Fox television affiliate, WHBQ- Channel 13, “I think the county has…really stepped up to the plate” with the new rules.
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Posted by JupaMan on January 25, 2008 under Adult Legal News |
–press release
Dic Tracy announced this afternoon that he was also leaving KSEX.
“It was a pleasure working at KSEX but I have decided to move on and will be joining TANC TV with a weekly TV and radio show,” said ClubJenna director Tracy. “I like to thank KSEX for allowing me the opportunity to have a show but it is time to move on to bigger and better things.”
Tracy’s show, Dic Tracy’s Casting Couch” was on KSEX every Tues. at 4-6 pm, but due to new scheduling and management changes he decided that this was not the platform for him any longer.
“I am very excited to be working at TANC and look forward to not only the weekly TV show but the radio show as well. We have alot planned at TANC and 2008 is going to be an amazing year” said Tracy.
You can check out Dic Tracy’s new show on www.TANCTV.com
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Posted by JupaMan on under Adult Legal News |
–press release
Porn Valley – Adult Performer Heather Pink and LeMayzing Pictures Office Manager Powder have announced their resignation as on air hosts for KSEX.com effective today.
“Heather and I both feel it is the right time to move on from KSEX. We are both are incredibly grateful to the fans and the other hosts at KSEX who supported us over the last year.” said Powder.
He added, “I’ve been around KSEX for almost six years. I went from just being a fan, to working as a technician, to becoming an on air host. If it hadn’t been for people like Wankus, Kylie Ireland and LorrAINIAC opening the door, I would have never had a chance to become a part of the adult industry. I’m eternally grateful for the opportunity they gave me.”
When asked about the future of Heather Pink and Powder’s show, “Pinky and The Geek”, Powder responded, “The show is going to continue on in one form or another. Heather and I have been contacted over the last few months by several Internet companies that are interested in broadcasting Pinky and The Geek on their respective websites.
Also, Martin and Steele of the Internet radio show “From The Ville” (www.fromtheville.com ) have been helping Heather and I make new business contacts as well”.
Heather Pink states, “The fans have been the backbone of our show and we want to make sure that what ever decision we make, is the best for not only ourselves but for the listening audience too”.
For updates on Pinky and The Geek, visit the show on Myspace.com at www.myspace.com/pinkygeek
For weekly updates on Heather Pink, visit her official website at http://www.clubheatherpink.com
To book Heather Pink, contact Foxxxmodeling at foxxxmodeling.com or by phone at (818) 884-0847
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Posted by JupaMan on December 21, 2007 under Adult Legal News |
–Burlington County Times
BURLINGTON CITY, NJ — Police say an adult novelty store on Route 130 is a meeting place for men who gather to have sex in private video viewing rooms.
At a City Council meeting Tuesday, Lt. Dave Ekelburg showed photographs of the viewing rooms at Love Shack, where the floors were littered with condoms. The photographs were taken by officers during a recent undercover investigation.
Despite pleading from the lawyer for Love Shack, the City Council unanimously voted to revoke the automatic amusement device license from the store. The license permits Love Shack to offer coin-operated private viewing booths.
Ekelburg said the city can revoke a license if a business fails to maintain “good and safe conduct on the premises.”
The move does not put Love Shack out of business, Ekelburg said. It just prohibits the store from operating video rooms.
Hal Haveson, a lawyer representing the business, said it was unfair to revoke the license on the basis of observations by police on one day.
He said the council should have notified Love Shack management, and given the business time to make changes.
Ekelburg said the store is divided into two sections separated by a beaded curtain.
In one section, the store sells magazines, films and novelty items. The other section has a row of 10 viewing booths where customers go to watch videos. The booths all have doors that can be locked, and only one person is supposed to enter at a time.
During the undercover investigation Nov. 29, Ekelburg said individuals solicited police officers to have sex and performed lewd acts in view of the officers.
Haveson said the business owner and property owner were not aware of the sexual activities at Love Shack. When they were notified by police, he said, the business owner voluntarily removed the doors from all video booths.
Haveson said the owner planned to install cameras in the hallway, and would instruct the manager to conduct frequent sweeps of the building.
Haveson said this is the first time Love Shack has been in trouble with the law.
As a result of the undercover investigation, five customers were arrested separately on lewdness charges. In addition, store owner Michael Savage of Yardley, Pa., and store manager Danny Phillips of Cinnaminson were charged with maintaining a nuisance, inappropriate operation of a sexually oriented business and various health-code violations, police said.
Frank Koretsky, owner of the building, was also charged with maintaining a nuisance.
Officers seized $3,148 in cash from the store suspected to have been generated as a result of the illegal operations.
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