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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.
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1. It's hard for me to understand why anyone would think that model releases are among the kind of documents that a secondary producer must maintain under Section 2257. Unless it contains other required information, e.g. date of production since the last amendments or alias names, it would actually be a crime to keep a release in the compliance records.
2. On the other hand, as a producer, I would never risk liability to the model by publishing any images for which I didn't possess a copy of a release executed by the model, and which seems, after a good and directed reading, to protect me in all the uses of the images that I intended, in just the manner in which I intended to use them. I'd want to assure, too, that the language protected me from allegations of the invasion of her privacy. I'd want to assure that I had the freedom to describe her in the manner I intended. At last count, fourteen states required that an effective release of the right of publicity must be in writing, and California requires some very special language for releases. Without that document, the original producer - and the model/performer - have your gonads in their hands.
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