Nice and thorough article over at Ars Technica about the different approaches state governments are taking to reforming sexting laws, and making important distinctions between charges of child pornography. The article discusses a paper by Dena T. Sacco of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic. The point of the paper is that there is a wide range of behaviors and intent that constitute “sexting”, even when the images are originally created and distributed by minors.
There is a big difference when an image is meant only to be shared between boyfriend/girlfriend, and when it willfully or maliciously gets distributed more widely for any number of reasons.
This continues to be an interested area of the law that legislatures will grapple with. Both the article and the original paper are worth a read.
