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Originally posted by PaulG
I wonder how many web sites only have one ID????
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None of the websites that buy from us, we supply two IDs for most of our content.
I've been in this business a long time and dealt with 2257 and the legal side for over two decades. One thing I've learnt is doing the minimum is never enough.
Get a lawyer to tell you what you should do, not a bunch of board posters who have no legal training. However here is advice for those who can't afford a lawyer.
If you ever are pulled in front of a judge or visited by police with a search warrant, doing the most you could will work in your favour, doing the least you should will work against you.
We supply customers with content that has two IDs, we shoot a picture of the model holding them next to her or his face. This is a different shot on every set we shoot. We also supply a model release with every set, we hold a model release in Czech.
Why?
Models sue publishers, saying that they did not sigh a model release for that shoot. Bit stupid when they are asked why they posed holding their IDs for that
SET.
Models dispute they did not understand what they were signing, can't say that if the contract is in their first language.
Models say they were not paid, look real stupid when they are shown a check stub or a legal reciept for payment recieved.
Underage people forge/steal IDs to get into porn, Remember 2257 started with Traci Lords and a forged ID. Harder to forge/steal two than one.
Models dispute that it's their signature on a model release, so we only accept models with one of their two Goverment Issued IDs cotaining a readable ID.
Sadly producers forge signatures, more likely to spot it if you have an ID with a signature.
Sadly producers sell content from a "Test" shoot. easy to spot it was not a test shoot if the model is holding the IDs beside her face on that very set.
None of the above are concerned or dealt with by 2257, but all of the above can land you in criminal or civil court.
No one knows if or what will happen with 2257, how it will change, if it will change, how it will be enforced, if it will be enforced, etc. you can only be cautious and prepared.
When the new 2257 amendments came out we contacted a few of our magazine clients. Hustler, Score, PRO etc. all employ full time lawyers, to ask about the changes, They told us not to worry our documentation was compliant.
Your call, we will carry on doing it our way what ever others say we do not need to do. Unless they tightenit againa nd we will adept to that.
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