Adult film firms fined for HIV cases
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Two Van Nuys adult film companies face $30,500 fines each for unsafe working conditions that led to three actors contracting HIV earlier this year -- the first time the state has cited adult film sets, Cal-OSHA officials said Thursday.
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The owners of a strip club and a company that operates adult bookstores have sued the state of Missouri over a new law banning sexually oriented billboards near state highways.
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_ A judge in Washington has convicted a 32-year-old man on charges he deliberately exposed 17 women to HIV. Anthony E. Whitfield, a former Oklahoma City resident, faces a minimum sentence of 137 years in prison.
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After years of booming sales supported by videotapes, DVDs and the Internet, the adult film industry is being challenged by easy video-sharing Web sites offering explicit content for free.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Noah Adams talks to John Dimsdale of Marketplace about a $1.2-million indecency fine imposed on the Fox television network by the Federal Communications Commission.
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As part of a crackdown against auto customization shops, regulators imposed a fine on the auto body shop affiliated with the MTV reality show "Pimp My Ride."
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The lucrative Los Angeles porn film industry was reeling on Friday by news that two production companies had been slapped with the first fines for allowing actors to perform without condoms.
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Piracy trials in Hong Kong and japan have led, respectively, to jail time and fines for two men convicted of copyright infringement.
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Service providers can be  fined Â£15,000 for breaching gay sex laws, but a law on harassment is quashed.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Wednesday passed legislation boosting fines on broadcasters and  entertainers who violate on-air decency rules to as much as  $500,000 per incident.
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Los Angeles County health officials sent letters to producers and directors in the porn industry, urging them to use condoms during sex scenes to help prevent a repeat of April's HIV outbreak.
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SHANGHAI, China  - Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, cellphones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life imprisonment under new rules that take effect Monday.
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Clinical trials of a new microbicide gel designed to help prevent women contracting HIV are stopped.
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China will prosecute people who deliberately infect others with HIV, state media said on Wednesday.
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A so-called typosquatter who served pornographic advertisements on domains such as Bobthebiulder.com and teltubbies.com has been fined again by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
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'Corruptors of the world' beware Iran's parliament today approved the death penalty for "persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies", AP reports.â¦
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The entertainment company that produces the "Girls Gone Wild" films and its founder pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges they failed to document the ages of female performers in sexually oriented productions.