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Side notes:
Yes you are not required to have copies of the ID ect if you are not the primary producer, but if you are raided having copies can prevent a few days in jail (note they like raiding right around 5pm on a friday, and love 3 day weekends) while they contact the primary producers to get copies of the records.
Personally I expect copies from people I buy from with a few exceptions. Reason is a large chunk of so called providers do not even have a compliant 2257 warning on their own pages so why in the hell should I trust them with keeping my virgin ass out of jail?
BrentD, since you mentioned the privacy act of 1974 and by the way there is another recent one. I have a comment about that as well. This just once again shows how many providers have not a clue about laws that can effect them or their buyers. The privacy laws can easily be diverted if a provider adds the correct clauses to their model release forms, of course odds are that the vast majority have not. As I am pretty positive the closest many providers have come to an attorney is from watching last weeks Law and Order. Just by looking around at most providers licenses it is painfully obvious that lots of them just borrowed another providers license, changed the names and put it up. The thought of what their releases look like send shivers down my spine.
One day I hope to see a provider clearing house that gives out stamps of approval for safe content. Almost like a good housekeeping seal of approval. Where the clearing house will have physically visited the provider, looked over their record keeping, checked the providers releases, do random visits during normal business hours to make sure a provider is compliant and all that type of stuff. Yet alas I do not see this ever happening, since nobody would pay for such a service.
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