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Originally posted by turbo
This is the part he's referring to:
(e) For the purposes of this section, the required statement shall
be displayed in the same typeface as the names of the performers,
director, producer, or owner, whichever is larger, and shall be no
smaller in size than the largest of the names of the performers,
director, producer, or owner, and in no case in less than 11pt type, in
black on a white, untinted background. For any electronic or other
display of the notice that is limited in time, the notice must be
displayed for a sufficient duration and of a sufficient size to be
capable of being read by the average viewer.
It does not specify video, but it's what he said, and he said it as if it was common knowledge. To me the fact that it mention that it be the same typeface as the performers, director, producer or owner, indicates a movie, as there are no performers or directors on a webpage, only models and producers/secondary producers. He then went on to say that the second sentence was intended as an or, and that it refers to webpages, though honestly, 'displayed for sufficient duration' seems to refer to movies again, but again, just saying what his interpretation was.
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Sorry for responding next day (last night got insane).
Ok this is the fucked up part. Noted adult lawyer Dewitt thinks it also applies to websites. So do my personal attornies (I got 2nd opinion to see how they may interpret it differently). There is no such thing as "common knowledge" when it comes to law. It is how it is written and how arguing parties in a trial can use legal definitions to interprete it.
Couple of points now:
"For the purposes of this section, the required statement shall
be displayed in the same typeface as the names of the performers, director, producer, or owner, whichever is larger, and shall be no smaller in size than the largest of the names of the performers, director, producer, or owner, and in no case in less than 11pt type, in black on a white, untinted background."
It is speaking of the format in which 2257 must be displayed (on all previously listed rules).
Web site content does have "performers" (models), directors (camera person), "producer" (see secondary producer & or whom arranged or paid for production), "owner" (copyright holder & or owner of website). These are not just limited to video production as you can see. Not to mention video is a big part of web sites.
"For any electronic or other display of the notice that is limited in time, the notice must be displayed for a sufficient duration and of a sufficient size to be capable of being read by the average viewer."
Key words are "Any" "Electronic" "Other". All of which clearly would cover web sites as they are not excluded. "That is limited in duration" meaning assuming it is limited in duration it must be displayed long enough to be read by a typical person.
Yes parts are intended for video's but it does not exclude the others and just gives a display time rule if it is a video. See our point?