I will seek legal counsel, just a quick thought..
 

So right now the 2257 link is enough. If this new proposal goes through it won't be, secondary producers (which is me I think) will be focused to keep all model ids which will effectively turn the industry upside down. If I have that right..

I remember someone saying even cropping nude images to appear non-nude in the thumbnail is unacceptable. Ultimately, does that mean I can or can't have a non-nude site and link to a nude site and still be alright with the basic 2257 links?

This has been discussed 50x already, I would search the board or just get advice from a lawyer...

only 50? :winkwink:
and just WHERE would woj happen to come up with the number 50??? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

In the time in took to reply could have just said can or can't not like there aren't more stupid threads but thanks for nothing anyway :thumbsup

As I understand it, you can't use a non-nude image that is cropped from an image that originally featured nudity without maintaining the proper docs. So if the images you use are not from a set that features nudity, but links to an entirely different set hosted by someone else, then I wouldn't think you'd need docs. I'm not 100% certain, though.

Let us know the results of your legal counseling, although I'm pretty sure different lawyers are telling people different things because it's so vague.

Thank you :) I'm trying to collect different opinions so I can debate them with my lawyer next weekend to further make sense of this.

The rules aren't in effect yet as i understand it. Free speech coalition has alot of info on it. By just making these proposals the government has scared alot of people away from porn, which is their intent I guess

Yup it has and I still don't get it. I mean c'mon is there no lawyer out there that will be able to make the argument that cropping an image to a non-nude form is actually creating a new image and should be treated as such?

It seems that the US government didn't quite write in everything they wanted in the law and are now trying to take a pound when they legally should only be taking a pinch.