Originally Posted by Paul Markham

This part of your statement is 100% wrong. The bit about protecting a 7 year old I agree with.

THE 2257 LAW PROTECTS YOU

Yes it's the only thing you have to protect yourself against a 14 to 17 year old deciding a good way of making money would be to sell you porn pictures of themselves. It also hinders those who think they can exploit these kids.

2257 allows you to demand documentation to verify the model was of legal age at the time of the shoot, the model agreed to the shoot being sold and published.

I will not be joining the FSC because I do not believe the 2257 should be struck down. Because without it I can't demand to see the documents that keep me out of jail as a convicted child pornographer.

OK my reaction is not the norm. But maybe having 8 policemen in my studio at 5.00 am in the morning, with me in tow, trawling through my content and records looking for under age models changes my perspective. They did not find what they thought I had because it does no9t exist, because I have to comply to 2257. It did not stop the search happening, but it did stop me making a mistake and ending up in jail.

2257 PROTECTS US

PS
Yes 2257 is a badly written law and the amendments made it worse. But better a bad law then no law.