Content – Bill Introduced in House to make Changes to Section 2257

Representative Mike Pense has introduced H.R. 3726 entitled the “Child Pornography Protection Act of 2005.” While it is difficult to determine what this resolution may look like at the end of the day – it proposes to make substantial changes to Section 2257. Section 2257 is the law that requires producers of adult entertainment to keep records related to the ages of the actors in their productions. This resolution seems to attempt to broaden the applicability of Section 2257 from the original producers of the content, to distributors and downstream users of the content. As discussed before, a similar change in Section 2257 proposed by the Department of Justice, has be strongly opposed by many Internet companies, since they have difficulty controlling the content of their users. Indeed, unlike the proposed DOJ changes, H.R. 3726 does not have an exception for web hosts and ISPs. Text of H.R. 3726