Comics on Trial
Panelists were Jeff Trexler, Bob Wayne, Phoebe Gloeckner, and Dale Cendail. They discussed why the CBLDF matters, Bob spoke about his retail experience and how he avoided censorship issues, the cases they are working on now and the expanding definition of “harmful to minors”, dealing with police and District Attorneys who want to charge people with possessing “Child Pornography” for having books with no pornography in it, Phoebe spoke about her experience with showing a very tame Crumb panel and how some students organized a campaign against her over it, how she got letters from other professors regarding similar experiences, Jeff spoke about censorship coming from both left and right sides, Dale talked about how the CBLDF can help even if you are in a private or educational setting and dealing with censorship issues, Dale also announced that CBLDF is now going to start helping creators learn about their IP rights, Jeff spoke about how even in “liberal” states like NY there are attacks on peoples careers that they are helping out with, Bob spoke about the Little Libraries people are creating to get around censorship, how hard censorship and lawsuits can be on people, the strategy they created that is working to help battle censorship that other organizations are using, cases they are working on that may end up at the Supreme Court, what they are optimistic about.
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