http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200850/2586/Naked-album-artwork-censored-on-WikipediaNaked album artwork censored on Wikipedia
by Stevie Smith
Dec 9 2008
Scorpions album cover finds controversy 32 years after release
It may have been widely available in record stores for more than 30 years, but the Virgin Killer album by German band the Scorpions is suddenly causing something of an online ruckus after its cover art was subjected to censorship on the UK version of Wikipedia.
The album cover in question shows a prepubescent girl posing provocatively against a stark black background. While the girl is clearly naked, her genitals have been subtly covered by the imposed image of cracked glass centring exactly between the legs.
However, despite the lack of obvious vulgarity, the Virgin Killer album’s Wikipedia page has attracted the ire of UK non-government organisation the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which has subsequently labelled the album image as a “potentially illegal indecent image of a child.”
As a result of being added to the IWF’s blacklist of online content, many Internet service providers based in the UK have subsequently been left unable to display the entire article for their customers.
Commenting on the restriction, a lawyer for the Wikimedia Foundation said: “We have no reason to believe the article, or the image contained in the article, has been held to be illegal in any jurisdiction anywhere in the world.”
This latest round of scrutiny is the second time the Virgin Killer artwork has been thrust beneath the spotlight during 2008. In May of this year, Christian advocacy group Concerned Women for America accused Wikipedia of, “helping to further facilitate perversion and pedophilia,” by allowing the image to remain on its pages.
When first released in 1976, the cover art for Virgin Killer led to a rush of controversy in some countries, which in turn saw record label RCA issue an alternative cover design consisting of the band members.
The album’s original cover design has never been banned, and is still available to this day.
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4 comments:
This album was so polemic in too many countries, because the company used a child totally naked. However I think they just made it to give a more graphic appearance to the album, their intention never was to promote phedophilia or child pornography.
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