In a new development in Internet pornography law, a Los Angeles federal
court has found that an Internet age verification service can be held liable
for the content displayed on the adult Web sites to which it monitors access.
On April 22, 2002 U.S. District Judge Lourdes Baird (C.D.CA) granted a preliminary
injunction in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Cybernet Ventures, Inc. in favor
of adult magazine Perfect 10 against defendant Cybernet Ventures, Inc., the
owner of Adult Check, an Internet age verification service, based on claims
that the Web sites that subscribe to Adult Check had unlawfully published
celebrity photographs belonging to Perfect 10.
Perfect 10, which claims a circulation of 90,000 and serves the market
for photographs of implant free "natural women" and specializes in
celebrities, alleges that the Web sites served by Adult Check post Perfect 10’s
copyrighted celebrity photographs and violate the publicity rights of the
celebrities in those photographs. "This is
