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Old 02-11-2003, 12:19 PM  
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Aaron is right on the legalities, Charly is right about the practicalities. Notice how many content people have gone out of business? It may be law that content producers keep records for 5 years but this is the real world, good luck finding the guy who is the custodian of records for the content you bought 5 years ago if he's moved on to other things or died. Brokers buy from guys all over the world, small little photographers, they'll broker anything, even a guy with a handful of sets. So the day when your local police come to look at your business and go through your sites and hard drives and they find that cute little teen model who looks 14, as charly said, you're going to be in a better position if you can go to a filing cabinet and produce a copy of her ID's.

If those pics of the young looking teen become the subject of an investigation, good luck finding the custodian of records. People are transient. You'll spend lots of money tracking him down and if he lives in Khazikstan or some place even worse.

At least having the photocopies make you appear to be a responsible businessman.
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