[Litigation] Preparation of attorney's opinion on charges of improper distribution and violation of the Act on the Protection of Children and Adolescents.
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A artist who was creating and selling adult comics has become the subject of a police investigation for violation of Article 11 of the Criminal Act and the Act on the Protection of Children and Adolescents. Law firm Veat analyzed the constitutive elements of each charge and the attitude of precedents, and drafted a legal opinion that intensively argued that it would be difficult to define the comics actually created by A artist as obscenity, and that they do not meet the requirements to be classified as child-adolescent-use obscenity as stipulated in the Act on the Protection of Children and Adolescents.
In particular, regarding child-adolescent-use obscenity, it emphasized that precedents stipulate that simply having a figure wearing a school uniform or appearing young in an obscenity does not make it child-adolescent-use obscenity, and that a comprehensive judgment of the production process and surrounding circumstances must be made from the perspective of an objective average person in society.
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Law firm Veat