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Originally Posted by JohnnyClips
Can someone please explain 2257? Why the fuck is everything so over-complicated and thousands of pages worth of utter bullshit for something so simple?
I take a photocopy of model IDs, have them fill out 2257 forms and model releases from https://www.2257services.net/ as well as my own release |
There are reasons why it's so complicated. Some sensible, some stupid, some just plain history.
DOJ has tried to fit digital and Internet publication into a structure that was designed for linear expression, movies, magazines, video tapes, and books. The tools and vehicles of what this industry does 21 years after the basic Regs were written is a poor fit, and all of the tortured analogies break down. Where does a notice go on a .jpg? If put in metadata, it's not obvious or conspicuous. Do you then alter that requirement for the movies and magazines and say it can be magnetically encoded in the sound track or staple?
Read my assessment of the basic structural flaws of the scheme at
http://www.xxxlaw.com/articles/primer5.html.
You do have a sense of humor about it by suggesting that compliance is as easy as downloading free forms and telling a model to fill them out! Not sure whether to call that parody or sarcasm, but you're right, thousands of webmasters really do think it's that simple, and that the issue is the kind of thing that can be fixed with things as simple as Band Aids.
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