Primary Record Keeping vs. Secondary Record Keeping Requirements of 2257
A quick summary:
If you are a content producer, you need to have full printed documentation that verifies the age of your model. This includes a copy of their driver's license and a signed model release that includes the listings of all names that the model uses (ie. stage name, professional name, legal name, nickname, etc). In addition, you need to be able to cross index models with the production (ie. photo shoot, film shoot, dvd, etc).
Two quick questions to self-answer for content producers:
1) If a prosecutor asks you to bring up records of all modesl by the stage name of Trixie, could you do it?
2) If a prosecutor asks you to pull up all model records for those that participated in a particular photo or film shot, could you do it?
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If you are webmaster that licenses/purchases content from content producers, you are required to maintain pointers to where you purchased the content. You should have a 2257 statement on your website that lists the address of the content producers used on your site. Don't just copy someone elses' 2257 page that lists all content producers, only list the ones that you are using.
Webmasters have the secondary record keeper requirements of pointing to the primary record keepers.
The issue that I see is if you are asked about where you purchased a specific image from, then you may have trouble answering that question.
If a prosecutor ever challenges you on the question of where did this specific picture come from, remember 2257lookup.com
More info about 2257 statue can be found on JD Obenberger's article:
http://my.execpc.com/%7Exxxlaw/primer.html
Given the recent AVNonline article about 2257 (
http://www.avnonline.com/index.php?P...tent_ID=106504) it's not hard to see that all the warnings that the legal guys have been saying for years about federal intervention is coming closer.
-brandon