Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship

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The Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship, better known as the Williams Committee, was a 1970s British Home Office committee chaired by Professor Bernard Williams. The task of the committee was to "review the laws concerning obscenity, indecency and violence in publications, displays and entertainments in England and Wales, except in the field of broadcasting, and to review the arrangements for film censorship in England and Wales".

[edit] See also

• Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
• President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography

[edit] External links

• H2G2: Censorship, Obscenity and the Williams Committee
• terramedia.co.uk: British film and video censorship and classification: Origins and the first 60 years
• Media and Arts Law Review: Obscenity, Pornography and Art