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One comment that i found very interesting from the attorneys on the panel is they said that web designers could be considered secondary recordkeepers.
I have never heard this before, but here is my take on why they might have said this.
A related issue that was brought up (going down a tangent) was what if you took an image that was sexually explicit, and then you cropped out the "bad" part, and just showed what would appear to be not sexually explicit.
Technically, that image still requires 2257 documentation, because the law reads that documentation must go with sexually explicit images...
therefore, if sexually explicit images are given to a web designer, who crops out the 'bad" parts and creates a new work, they must have the documentation.
This new revelation about web designers having to have documentation is quite odd to me, since web designers don't publish the work, they hand it over to the company that contacted with them, and the website owner would be the secondary record keeper.
Clyde DeWitt brought up the reference about firms that designed VHS box covers had to address the 2257 issue.
I haven't found clarification yet for this new issue since i am stil decompressing from the show, but i will try to find some clarifications on this issue.
I don't think this to be a panic issue, since the focus by DOJ is probably more so on the website side, and that the points brought up by the attorneys was a very technical and legal viewpoint.
Fight the If you dream about sexually explicit images then you are a secondary producer!
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