A series of legal seminars aimed at keeping adult businesses and their attorneys current with political and legal developments affecting the industry will begin with a seminar in Miami August 4, the day after this year's Internext show concludes in Hollywood.
Intellectual property attorney Gregory Piccionnelli and author Frederick S. Lane, III (Obscene Profits: The Enterpreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age) will address such topics as financial issues, intellectual property, employee and independent contractors' issues, libel and slander litigation, criminal justice issues like simulated or synthetic child porn versus child porn featuring real children, and government regulations adult entrepreneurs must know, among other subjects.
Piccionelli said in announcing the series that the threat of the Bush Justice Department to enforce federal anti-porn laws aggressively prompted the need for this series.
"For years, the adult entertainment industry has been mostly free of the obscenity prosecutions that were so common in the Reagan/Meese era," Piccionelli said in a statement. "Attorney General John Ashcroft, however, has made no secret of the fact that he plans to renew the federal government's efforts to crack down on adult entertainment, and in particular, adult Web sites."
Piccionelli could not be reached for further comment when contacted by AVN.com.
He and Lane have also planned seminars for Los Angeles on October 1, Dallas on November 15, and as yet-unspecified dates in Las Vegas, Chicago, and Seattle.
The Miami seminar is set for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. EDT at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
