We have not been contacted by the police yet, so we cannot say what action, if any, we plan to take.” However, it is understood that the company would resist any attempt to make it destroy stocks and abandon reprints. “I am expecting to meet the police soon with the university lawyers. If there is a prosecution and the courts rule that the book should be destroyed, then we will, reluctantly obey the ruling. His most notorious image is of himself with a whip in his rectum Another work shows two men “fisting”.

His work has been shown at most major galleries in the western world, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Hayward Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in London, and is highly regarded by most art critics.The university and the publishers reacted with astonishment to the CPS’s advice to the police. “We will not voluntarily destroy this book,” said Dr Peter Knight, vice-chancellor. They had been alerted by a chemist who developed photographs of the book taken by a student for a thesis on “Fine Art versus Pornography”. Lawyers acting for the Crown Prosecution Service decided parts of it were likely to “deprave or corrupt” under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act and advised the police that they had grounds to ask the university to voluntarily destroy it.As well as portraits and studies of flowers, the late Mapplethorpe’s work features explicit photographs of his – and other people’s – sex lives. A UNIVERSITY and a firm of publishers are preparing to be prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act for refusing to destroy a book by the controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Academics at the University of Central England in Birmingham and executives at Jonathan Cape are expected to refuse a police request for them to pulp the book when they meet officers from the West Midlands Paedophile and Pornography Unit.
Mapplethorpe, a copy of which is in the British Library and most university libraries, was seized by police last October.

They help raise the film’s profile for the roughly 5,000 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Mr Fields suggested the suit was deliberately timed to raise doubts just as Oscar ballots are being mailed for voting that concludes a week before the awards show on 23 March.”Where have these people been the last six or seven months?” he asked.The suit certainly strikes at the play’s heart. Monty is considered a long shot for best picture or director, against the likes of Titanic. Producer Uberto Pasolini told the Los Angeles Times that it was a “wholly original piece of work”.. Their play opened in several British regional theatres after proving a hit in New Zealand, they allege, where it could have been seen by the film’s creative team. The specific similarities seemed, on the face of it, weak.They included the presence of a sole black character, hints that another is homosexual, and the failing marriage of a third. But the two authors said they will post a copy on a World Wide Web site for the public to “judge for themselves”.In recent weeks The Full Monty’s makers have been conducting what amounts to a typical Oscar campaign: print ads in trade newspapers and media interviews with the main players. THE MAKERS of The Full Monty, celebrated world-wide for its original Yorkshire wit, are being sued for plagiarism by two New Zealand playwrights.

A suit filed in Los Angeles claims the film’s setting, premise and some character development were based on a 1987 play “Ladies Night”. A lawyer for Fox Searchlight Pictures, the small films subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation which financed the film, yesterday dismissed the suit out of hand. Unless Tony Diedrick is thinking in apocalyptic terms from the point of view of his obsession he couldn’t be writing those words.”Mr Diedrick claimed as an alibi that he spent Christmas Day night and Boxing Day morning at his flat before going to his mother’s for the day at 10am He was arrested in March 1994, but released without charge The case continues.. But there was speculation that the suit could dampen the film’s chances of collecting an Oscar. It has Oscar nominations, for best picture, best director, best score, and best original screenplay.
Playwrights Andrew McCarten and Stephen Sinclair are asking for all of Fox’s profits on the film, which cost $3.5m (pounds 2.1m) and has reaped $200 m in ticket sales.