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From the new 2257 regs, effective 6/23/2005: (and I quote..)
"Any primary producer who fails to release the records to a secondary producer is simply in violation of the regulations and may not use the excuse that the records contain alleged trade secrets to avoid compliance."
Page 29614
BTW- as a secondary producer, you are only require to post the primary producers custodial address, and you can take the copies of the records on "good faith" from the primary that they are indeed accurate. I recommend, however, checking them over yourself for anythin obviously fishy, and consider not using scenes that have iffy documentation.
If the effective date comes to pass and you do not have the records in hand AND organized/filed, do yourself a favor and yank it from your site until you do.
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