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Digital Manipulation of Images of Models' Appearance in Advertising: Strategies for Action Through Law and Corporate Social Responsibility Incentives to Protect Public Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2021

Caitlin McBride ,
Nancy Costello ,
Suman Ambwani ,
Breanne Wilhite  and
S. Bryn Austin
Caitlin McBride
Affiliation:
Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI, USA
Nancy Costello
Affiliation:
Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI, USA
Suman Ambwani
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA
Breanne Wilhite
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
S. Bryn Austin
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Abstract

Context:

Widespread digital retouching of advertising imagery in the fashion, beauty, and other consumer industries promotes unrealistic beauty standards that have harmful effects on public health. In particular, exposure to misleading beauty imagery is linked with greater body dissatisfaction, worse mood, poorer self-esteem, and increased risk for disordered eating behaviors. Moreover, given the social, psychological, medical, and economic burden of eating disorders, there is an urgent need to address environmental risk factors and to scale up prevention efforts by increasing the regulation of digitally altered advertising imagery.

Methods:

This manuscript summarizes the health research literature linking digital retouching of advertising to increased risk of eating disorders, disordered weight and appearance control behaviors, and body dissatisfaction in consumers, followed by a review of global policy initiatives designed to regulate digital retouching to reduce health harms to consumers. Next, we turn to the US legal context, reporting on findings generated through legal research via Westlaw and LexisNexis, congressional records, federal agency websites, law review articles, and Supreme Court opinions, in addition to consulting legal experts on both tax law and the First Amendment, to evaluate the viability of various policy initiatives proposed to strengthen regulation on digital retouching in the United States.

Findings:

Influencing advertising practices via tax incentives combined with corporate social responsibility initiatives may be the most constitutionally feasible options for the US legal context to reduce the use of digitally alternated images of models' bodies in advertising.

Conclusions:

Policy and corporate initiatives to curtail use of digitally altered images found to be harmful to mental and behavioral health of consumers could reduce the burden of eating disorders, disordered weight and appearance control behaviors, and body dissatisfaction and thereby improve population health in the United States.

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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 7 - 31
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 2019

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142 Ana Radelat, Revenue-Hungry States Set Sights on Taxing Ads, AdAge (Feb. 25, 2013), https://adage.com/article/news/revenue-hungry-states-set-sights-taxing-ads/239989/ [https://perma.cc/C3E4-WSMA].

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144 See U.S. Const. art. I, § 8.

145 Comptroller of the Treasury v. Wynne, 135 S. Ct. 1787, 1797-98 (2014).

146 See Dean Milk Co. v. City of Madison, 340 U.S. 349, 356 (1951).

147 Police Dept. of Chi. v. Mosley, 408 U.S. 92, 95 (1972).

148 Cf. Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. v. Minn. Comm'r of Revenue, 460 U.S. 575, 581 (1983).

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152 Id. at 592.

153 Ragland, 481 U.S. at 229-30.

154 Pitt News v. Pappert, 379 F.3d 96, 111 (3d Cir. 2004) (citing Minneapolis Star, 460 U.S. at 582, 585).

155 461 U.S. 540, 550 (1983).

156 Id. at 549-50 (citing Harris v. McRae, 448 U.S. 297, 316 (1980)).

157 Lombard, supra note 149, at 132.

158 500 U.S. 173, 203 (1991).

159 See id. at 207-08 (Blackmun, J., dissenting).

160 H. 3892, 191th Gen. Court. (Ma. 2019).

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170 About USGBC, supra note 121.

171 Certification Program Overview, supra note 122.