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Originally Posted by fitzmulti
the laws are the laws...regardless of where the hell she is from.
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for real, even if she was from the mountains of Waziristan the point is that
you're in the US, you're held to the 2257 law. The nationality of the model has no relevance to the 2257 issue. The fact that there's a chance these chicas may not want their material on c4s puts you at even more risk, in that if they or someone they know found the material and were upset by it, all they'd have to do is report you for publishing porn without 2257 records- if they're established in the industry chances are they're familiar with US 2257.
I'm trying to imagine what old footage you've barely used up til now would be worth this kind of risk. As was noted elsewhere in the thread you're putting yourself at risk even uploading the videos on ebay, for reasons that have nothing to do with your oral agreement with these models (the huge issue of you having no 2257 docs). Why not just hire some new talent who can provide releases and 2257 docs, create scenes that will do really well on c4s (straight sex doesn't do very well there, creativity and fetish does) and proceed without risk?
C4S doesn't require 2257 docs to be sent to them, the onus is on
you to keep those records yourself. You have no protection if one of the models used in the footage or anyone else decides to report you, and because the laws are relatively new you probably won't know what to expect in terms of tangible consequences until you're caught. I'd bet the legal fees alone would wipe out your c4s earnings many times over though.
I can't imagine any old footage being worth this risk.