A US court has ruled the federal record-keeping statute 18 U.S.C. 2257 to be unconstitutional, this is seen as great news for the pornography industry which has long seen the law as problematic.

18 U.S.C 2257 regulations require every producer of adult material to keep records proving the age of every model who appears in their sexually explicit work. These record should be available for Federal inspectors to view at any time.

These regulations also apply to what the Department of Justice calls 'Secondary Producers' - anyone who "publishes, reproduces or reissues" sexually explicit material.

These regulations, and the law they are part of, were intended to curb the production and distribution of child porn but also had a huge impact on the legal adult industry.

But now The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has called the record-keeping stature "unconstitutional" and "overbroad". Although this ruling only applies to a specific area of America, industry lawyers believe it to be an important step forward in the fight against these regulations.

Source: AVN.com