by Violet Blue and lifted directly from Fleshbot:

A federal appeals court has ruled today that the 2257 record keeping laws that have beleagured the adult industry for years now are in direct violation of First Amendment rights, specifically in regard to the definition of "sexually explicit conduct". As you know, this language has been spookily ... nay, ridiculously vague in keeping porn makers and the wide variety of so-called "secondary producers" on their toes; when you never categorically know what you're doing is against the law, it becomes just another scare tactic to keep porn peeps afraid that they're doing something wrong. 

Read the rest of the article here.

...because public space really matters!

Elizabeth