Congress to ban photography of minors?!

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According to an article in Wired News today, Rep. Mark Foley (FL)
announced
a bill that would make illegal all commercial photography of
minors."

The article states that,

"In addition to prohibiting commercial photography of anyone under 17
years
old, their bill would make it a federal felony for stock photo houses
like
Corbis or Getty Images to license images of minors from their
catalogs -- a
billion-dollar industry -- or for news photographers to sell images of
minors."

The article can be found here:

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52379,00.html


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