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From: guritzky@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Guritzky)
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Subject: Re: Movie ratings (R, PG, etc.): any legal standing?
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Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 14:02:43 EDT
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:: Does the movie rating system administered in the US (X, R, PG, PG-13, G)
:: have any legal standing, or is it just a self-inflicted standard in the 
:: movie industry?  

	I seem to remember seeing something, somewhere, which dealt 
with the history of movie ratings (among other things).  This well
respected source, which I can't remember, said that it was a self 
policing set up to protect itself from federal regulation.

--Ron "lost in the 1990's"