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Originally Posted by Quentin
Can you explain this comment a bit? I'm not sure I understand how 2257 regulations have lowered costs for businesses.
From where I sit, the burden of compliance with 2257 has actually increased over time, and the expense of complying with it has gone up, accordingly.
A law I could once comply with through use of nothing more than a file cabinet now requires a manner of cross-referencing that simply isn't possible in an analog system. Now, you pretty much have to store your records in digital form, within a database that permits you to cross-reference all the various pieces of data you have to store, from all known aliases of the performer to each and every depiction of that performer that is subject to the statute.
How has 2257 lowered your costs? Do you mean that the more recent changes to the regulations (like clarification that it's acceptable to have a third-party like an attorney serve as your custodian of records) have lowered the cost of compliance from where it was in, say, 2005?
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To clarify, I should've said "my business". I do agree with your statement regarding 2257 regs.
My cost of doing business was lowered because the industry went into a panic about 2257 and started doing things such as sending out unredacted model releases and IDs to people that they were doing business with i.e. secondary producers. Since I had online stores adult companies were sending me stacks of model releases. I reviewed the model releases and saw that guys that I was paying $500 to were getting $200 from larger companies. Women that I was paying $1,000.00 to were getting $500 from the same companies. I was paying top dollar no questions asked. I even received the records for adult.com with 2,269 section 2257 records. Armed with the knowledge, I was able to hire talent at a much lower cost as well as clean up my own 2257 files. I had IDs that were sent via fax in my files. I replaced them with the better copies received. Saved me the trouble of hunting down people to fix paperwork.
Indeed, moving forward with increased production volume, 2257 has become more burdensome.