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Originally Posted by lassiter
Doesn't sound like the FSC is doing very well with this so far.  |
I would argue the opposite. Without them nobody would have fought the secondary producer standings and the industry would now have to follow a law that was hard to understand and impossible to comply with. They got the secondary producer thing stopped, but the government (via an addition to the Adam Walsh act) changed the law again to remove the secondary producer provision and make everyone a "producer".
From what I understand the judge then told them that since it has changed there is no use in going forward with the fight. So now people that would have fallen under the "secondary producer" area will have to have docs and records, but it looks like the FSC is going to work with the justice department to come up with exactly what they will need to have. As it says, currently someone that just buys some content can't comply with the law because they didn't personally inspect the IDs and they didn't personally witness the signatures on the docs. There are other things in there too that "secondary" type producers can't comply with. Hopefully they will be able to come up with some type of a reasonable thing that will be easy to comply with so anyone that has to won't spend hours a day just up-keeping records.